Critical thinking requires us to move beyond egocentric attitudes and perceptions.  In this seminar we
consider the following questions:  How can we learn to unblock critical faculties and to expand capacities for perception and abstract thought?  What are the possible connections between rational (scientific) knowledge and intuition?   How might we take a more active role in our own education, as producers and integrators (instead of simply as consumers and assimilators) of knowledge?  We take a nontraditional approach to such questions.  Reading materials include Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go, There You Are and Ruggiero's The Art of Thinking.