authors: Valentyna Voronkova, Olga Kyvliuk, Vìtalina Nikitenko
Urgency of the research. The real world, subjectively disfigured by contexts, points of view, political-economic predilections, sentiments of the "target audience", etc., has been transformed into an information-virtual plane of communication, cooperation, ideologisation, mediation, recognition, and comprehension in general. The modern hyperreal world needs rational, sceptical, objective analysis - critical analysis, where the significance of critical thinking of the individual in the context of civilisational development requires theoretical conceptualisation and practical implementation.
Target setting. The trends in the development of information space, the danger of forming a simulative consciousness, and the distortion of reality in the process of superimposing hyperreality, or virtualisation, create a dubious illusion of transformation of a critically thinking personality. Hence the problem of forming mass consciousness to critically assess information flows, react to the effects of reality (simulacra), and interpret them towards demanipulativeness and objectivity.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Postmodernists relied on the basic works of J. Baudrillard, J.- F. Lyotard, J. Derrida considering the philosophical paradigm. In the context of analysing critical thinking, the emphasis is placed on the works of J. Haber, D. Halpern, K. Stanowicz, R. Ennis, M. Scriven, R. Paul and others.
The research objective. To conceptualise critical thinking as a type of model of thinking that requires philosophical self-reflection based on the appeal to postmodern discourse.
The statement of basic materials. The article conceptualises the essential meaning of critical thinking, its functionality, and prospects of development through the prism of postmodern discourse with a focus on the theory of simulacra by J. Baudrillard. Critical thinking is seen as a means of developing a culture of thinking in a hyperreal/virtualised world, which is oriented towards the principles of rationality, objectivity, credibility, and the processes of intellectualisation, selfreflection, self-awareness, etc.
Conclusions. In the postmodern discourse of J. Baudrillard, critical reflection is not an important process and tool of the foundations of philosophical reflection, but informatisation and virtualisation of society have led to such a negative phenomenon as the manipulation of individual/society consciousness. The fact that critical thinking is formed and possessed by the individual is a pledge of intellectual virtues, and impartiality, and stands as an opponent of the hyperreal world.
Keywords: critical thinking, postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard, hyperreal world, information space.
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