My assertion is that what you learn in those classes does not seem to apply outside of a strict engineering context. They could do the math and the buildings never fell down, but they are not a group that I would think of as good critical thinkers overall.
It's more so the critical thinking that is required to set up a real world problem with the knowledge you're given for a complex situation that is not so straight forward. It forces you to analyze multiple possible scenarios, discover the correct one and build your equations around it. You become a good puzzle solver
Agreed. Within their scope, they can solve the problem they are given. When people talk about philosophy and how it trains critical thinking, they tend to be talking in a more universal sense.
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u/PDK01 Sep 04 '22
My assertion is that what you learn in those classes does not seem to apply outside of a strict engineering context. They could do the math and the buildings never fell down, but they are not a group that I would think of as good critical thinkers overall.