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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads

By Michael Vazquez, Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Prinzing, Research and Assessment Scholar, Wake Forest University

Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

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