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There is widespread agreement that critical thinking is something we need a lot more of. There is far less agreement about what exactly critical thinking is. Its skills and virtues are often described and taught as individual reasoning skills and virtues. Critical thinking is assimilated to a kind of cognitive rugged individualism, in much popular wisdom – stay off the bandwagon! be sceptical! do your own research! But there are good reasons to regard critical thinking also as a social achievement, requiring trust, deference, and cooperation to be performed reliably. In his Brock Talk, Dr. Kenyon will discuss the roles that social skills and communities play in critical thinking, and how we can help build these for ourselves and others.