Some RAIL readers may recall the fracas that developed between Peter Wood, of the NAS and AILACT around the end of 2011. Unfortunately, it’s a fracas in which RAIL played a direct role–something I sincerely regret. Though I had written what I hoped was a moderate-in-tone post questioning Wood’s use of the term ‘critical thinking’ [...]
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AILACT Responds to Peter Wood
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, News, tagged AILACT, Chronicle of Higher Education, Don Lazere, NAS, Peter Wood on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(Another) Fallacies Infographic
Posted in Connections, Critical Thinking, Discussion, Fallacies, Teaching, tagged infographics, logical fallacies, yourlogicalfallacyis.com on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My but these things are popular. This one comes to us via yourlogicalfallacyis.com and is free to download in three sizes. The graphic is also downloadable as vector art for those saavy and motivated enough to want to work with the image some more. In terms of design I think I like this one the [...]
R.I.P. Facts
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, Humor, tagged Chicago Tribune, facts, Mary Poovey, Rex W. Huppke, truth on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today there’s a lovely little piece by Rex W. Huppke in the Chicago Tribune on the life and death of facts. That’s right, facts are dead. A favorite quote from the obituary: “It’s very depressing,” said Mary Poovey, a professor of English at New York University and author of A History of the Modern Fact. “I [...]
David McCandless Fallacies Infographic
Posted in Discussion, Fallacies, tagged Argumentation, David McCandless, fallacies, infographics, Informal Logic, Rhetoric on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Readers of RAIL might remember this chestnut from two years ago on infographics and visual argument. That post featured a TED talk by David McCandless. Though I’m tempted, I’ll refuse to commit the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy here and simply report that McCandless’s website, Information is Beautiful, now features a very nice-looking infographic [...]
Informal Logic, vol. 32 no.1
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Informal Logic, tagged argument theory, Ben Hamby, Christoph Lumer, Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez, Dan Sperber, David Botting, Hugo Mercier, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Louise Cummings, Michael Gary Duncan on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Informal Logic vol. 32 no. 1 The latest edition of Informal Logic is now available. Contributing authors to this volume include Lilian Bermejo-Luque , Louise Cummings , Christoph Lumer, Michael Gary Duncan, David Botting and Ben Hamby. While there are, as usual, several very interesting articles, of particular interest to readers of RAIL will be Cristián [...]
Stations: Argumentation Around the Web
Posted in Connections, Discussion, tagged argumentics, burden of proof, Jean Goodwin, thought experiments, Tim Van Gelder, Toulmin, YourView on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Though I’ve been keeping up with the CFP’s, RAIL readers may have noted that I’ve not been posting much else. Apologies for that! Deadlines, deadlines. At times like these I try to assuage my guilt for not writing more of my share of the content here by pointing RAIL readers to interesting posts on other [...]
Philopolis at Guelph
Posted in Announcements, Critical Thinking, Discussion, News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Uncategorized, Workshops on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
University of Guelph graduate students (it’s my understanding) have been organizing in a serious fashion to take philosophy out of the ivory tower. A two-day series of events, with six concurrent sessions addresses issues from Einstein to zombies, heuristics, and feminism. Philopolis Guelph, inspired by Philopolis Montreal aims to “[do] a better job [than academic [...]
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