Critical Thinking

Latest research

1. Why the ‘this universe’ objection confirms a multiverse

   • Louis Ward

   in Synthese

   Article Open access 17 August 2026

2. Four Cases of Foresight and Futures Thinking in Public Universities Under the Discourse of University Disruption

   • Siyada Witoon
   • Veli Virmajoki

   in Higher Education Policy

   Article Open access 17 August 2026

   

3. Climate adaptation as evolvability

   • Michael Weisberg
   • Rachael L. Brown
   • Christopher H. Lean

   in Synthese

   Article Open access 17 August 2026

   

4. The problem of evil has not been reversed for atheists

   • Mark Satta

   in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

   Article 17 August 2026

5. Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science

   • Morteza Mahmoudi

   in Nature

   Article 17 August 2026

   

6. The Complementarity Paradox: Human-AI Collaboration, Overreliance, and Skill Decline in Entrepreneurial Contexts

   • Srinivas Subramanya
   • Satish Krishnan
   • Nasreen Azad

   in Information Systems Frontiers

   Article Open access 15 August 2026

   

7. On the Strawson Defence of Instrumentalism: Reflection and Reactive Attitudes

   • Anton Emilsson

   in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

   Article Open access 15 August 2026

8. Robust counterfactual explanations under model multiplicity using multi-objective optimization

   • Keita Kinjo

   in Evolutionary Intelligence

   Article 14 August 2026

   

9. Circular economy resilience as the governance of system options: specified and general resilience in circular transitions

   • Felix Carl Schultz
   • Vladislav Valentinov
   • Ingo Pies

   in Journal of Industrial Ecology

   Article Open access 14 August 2026

10. Exploring the Interplay of Self-efficacy, Motivation, Critical Thinking, and Perceived Value in EFL Learning: A Social Cognitive Perspective

    • Jing Fu
    • Malini Ganapathy
    • Ali Nawaz Khan

    in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

    Article 14 August 2026

    

11. Diagnostic errors in critically ill patients: challenges, contributing factors, and improvement strategies through the SEIPS framework

    • María Cruz Martín Delgado
    • Bertrand Guidet
    • Arzu Topeli

    in Intensive Care Medicine

    Article 12 August 2026

12. Elements of university entrepreneurial ecosystems: from nice-to-have to must-have

    • Pedro Torres
    • Pedro Godinho
    • Nave Edgar

    in The Journal of Technology Transfer

    Article 12 August 2026

    

13. The Case Against Corporate Switching Defenses

    • Mattias Gunnemyr
    • Jan Willem Wieland

    in The Journal of Ethics

    Article Open access 12 August 2026

14. From preparedness to resilience: rethinking critical care strategies for future pandemics

    • Manuel Ruiz-Bailén
    • María del Carmen Ruiz-Iniesta

    in Intensive Care Medicine

    Article 12 August 2026

    

15. Exploring students’ dialogic patterns and argumentation skills in a computer-supported critical discussion activity

    • Yi Song
    • Wenju Cui
    • John Sabatini

    in Educational technology research and development

    Article 12 August 2026

    

16. What’s unfair about resultant moral luck?

    • Anna Nyman

    in Philosophical Studies

    Article Open access 11 August 2026

17. The literacy mirage: how generative AI bypasses rather than builds informational capacity in the Global South

    • Muhammad Surajo Ibrahim

    in AI & SOCIETY

    Article 11 August 2026

18. I caught my students using AI to cheat in an exam — here’s what universities must do to stamp this out

    • Roberto Serrano

    in Nature

    Article 10 August 2026

    

19. The Right Peak: Nine Paradoxes of Residual Fatality, Misrecognition, and Harmful Recognition

    • Akira Hattori

    in Human Arenas

    Article 10 August 2026

    

20. The death of “why”: how AI is replacing human curiosity

    • Muhammad Rafiq

    in AI & SOCIETY

    Article 08 August 2026

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