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Luke Zaphir - Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland. Luke completed a doctorate in philosophy in 2017 with a focus on social and education philosophy. He currently is a researcher in critical thinking and citizenship education with the University of Queensland's Critical Thinking Project, and has an interest in non-electoral democratic theory. Luke lectures and tutors philosophy at the University of Queensland, as well as being a practicing secondary teacher at Education Queensland's distance education school IMPACT Centre. He designs their Critical Thinking projects.

How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought

Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, posits that amid the panicked flurry of the pandemic, employing concepts from the field of critical thinking called vice epistemology can be demonstrably useful. This theory argues our thinking habits and intellectual character traits cause poor reasoning. Zaphr targets for discussion 7 “intellectual sins” of which we should be mindful in these challenging times.

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Subjects: Ethics, Health, Human Rights, KM
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