The Thinking Game

The human situation and human purposes - the three prime purposes, limits and possibilities, exercises; the theory of knowledge I - organizing and generalizing experience, exercises; the theory of knowledge II - notation, generating expectations/predicting, controlling events, choices, exercises; description, introductory - description, exercises; description, concepts and indicators - an illustration of conceptual development, exercises; description, conceptual frameworks - conceptual frameworks, exercises; description, definitions and measurements - definitions, measurements, exercises; generating expectations I - generating justified expectations, predicting with classifications, uses and limitations, exercises; generating expectations II - predicting with forecasts or theories, exercises; controlling events I - causality, preventing/producing change, structures and process, imperfections of fit and the fudge factor, exercises; controlling events II - a theory of roasting, lessons and implications, exercises; finding causes - Mill's methods - how to locate causes, the five methods, exercises; criticizing theories I - is the purpose valid?, the diagnosis problem, a second example, improving diagnosis, exercises; criticizing theories II - the internal structure of theories, the fit to established knowledge and history, experimentation, exercises; choice, introductory - choice and action, the critical focus, comparison as the basis for preference, exercises; choice - instruments and processes - determining the options, the normative variables, assigning priorities, applying priorities - policies, exercises; choice, what are the options? - projecting the options, chain reactions, the normative variables, the decision matrix, exercises; the normative variables - the structure of the normative variables, some applications, exercises; priorities I - meaning, developing priorities, exercises; priorities II - justifying preferences, exercises; policies I - policy - meaning and function, corollaries and implications, exercises; policies II - policy making, exercises; propositions and arguments - propositions and arguments, the constituent elements of an argument, an extended example, exercises; creating a checklist - a generalized checklist, summary checklist; writing and reading - writing, organization, some dos and don'ts, parting advice; critiques - an illustration - X on values and social inquiry.