Critical thinking is essential for understanding and addressing serious challenges of our world, from tackling poverty and climate change to grappling with the ethical uses of generative AI. But critical thinking—as a learned skill and practice—also needs to be better studied and understood.

Join us for this Chats in the Stacks book talk with Robert Sternberg, psychology professor at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, who co-edited the two-volume work Critical Thinking Across Disciplines (Palgrave Press, 2025)  with Weihua Niu, psychology professor at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University.

Sternberg will talk about a multidisciplinary approach to teaching critical thinking in classroom settings and discuss the importance of bringing together experts from a variety of fields—such as psychology, philosophy, education, and creativity studies—in understanding the theoretical foundations of critical thinking and promoting its applications in everyday life in the 21st century.

This book talk is hosted by Mann Library.

Both in-person and virtual attendance will be possible for this book talk. For virtual attendance, please register here.