This [a disconnected link to a logic course webpage] is no way to get women into logic. The “naughty schoolgirls” Vince Hendricks, an editor of Synthese, probably the most prestigious epistemology journal, anticipates in his logic class will surprise the rest of us. The kinderwhore fashion is ten years out of date and provides too [...]
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Women in logic
Posted in Connections, Critical Thinking, Discussion, Humor, Logic, tagged exploitation, feminism, logic, objectification, students, Vincent Hendricks, women in philosophy on February 22, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Burden of proof and intellectual property
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Do PIPA and SOPA threaten to reverse legal burden of proof in the US? Clay Shirky argues they do. I don’t know enough about the legal system, or the proposed legislation. However, this is a serious allegation with implications far beyond the US.
Trolls
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Rhetoric, tagged fallacies, internet, internet culture, internet etiquette, netiquette, Rhetoric, trolls on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The increasing popularity of on-line discussions has given rise to an argumentative neologism that may be more widely applicable: “trolls.” Trolls commit an inappropriate move in an argument, saying something unreasonable that derails the discussion. (I recall analogously in my highschool biology class we learned to ask the teacher, Mr. Houghton, about living through the [...]
Guest Post: Why is the National Association of Scholars Saying Such Awful Things about Critical Thinking?
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, Guest Posts, tagged AILACT, critical theory, critical thinking, Donald Lazere, Kieth Whitaker, Michael Booker, NAS, Peter Wood, polemics, Steve Zelnick, teaching critical thinking on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest article by longtime critical thinking advocate and researcher Donald Lazere. Prof. Lazere is Professor Emeritus of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. WHY IS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS SAYING SUCH AWFUL THINGS ABOUT CRITICAL THINKING? Donald Lazere, Professor Emeritus of English, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo [...]
Does Teaching Critical Thinking Include Challenging Students’ Beliefs?
Posted in Discussion, Teaching, Critical Thinking, tagged philosophy, dialectic, teaching critical thinking, Peter Boghossian, Inside Higher Ed, college students, fact-value distinction on December 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This past term I had a rather unpleasant experience in my critical thinking class. I was confronted with a subset of students who walked in the door assured that I had nothing to teach them about critical thinking. I learned this because they vocally resisted absolutely everything with which they did not personally agree. Unfortunately, [...]
Culture and Critical Thinking
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, tagged Cate Hundleby, Chronicle of Higher Education, critical thinking, David Hitchcock, Deanna Kuhn, Donald Lazere, Harvey Siegel, Informal Logic Movement, Mark Weinstein, National Association of Scholars, Peter Woods, Robert Ennis, Sharon Bailin on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In a recent post on the Chronicle of Higher Education website, frequent contributor and NAS president Peter Wood laments: “We have elevated “critical thinking” as the chief and worthiest end of a liberal education. Perhaps it is time for a reassessment. The critical thinker who is deaf to culture’s deeper appeals is impoverished in some [...]
Dancing an Explanation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some readers of RAIL may already with John Bohannon’s brilliant competition Dance your PhD. In the video below, given at a TED event in Brussels, Bohannon generalizes the point that Dance your PhD essentially makes: Explanations can be effectively delivered in any number of ways. Though the suggestion that dancers might replace the ubiquitous and [...]
Name-dropping
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, Informal Logic, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, Informal Logic, symbolic logic, teaching philosophy on November 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This article from the Denver Post stresses the usefulness of philosophy, including how “emphasis on informal and symbolic logic” helps with computer science. In accounts of philosophy curricula, unfortunately, reference to informal logic is typically just name-dropping, as the textbook authors are mostly not scholars in the field, and instructors rarely have any relevant training. [...]
Improvisation and Argumentation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged argumenation, communication, dialectic, George Lewis, improvisation, speech acts, Vijay Iyer on November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the wonders of Twitter. In a chain of argumentation that wandered around quite a bit today, the question of improvisation (what it is, how best to characterize it, etc.) came up. For those RAIL readers who are classically trained rhetoricians, this question will no doubt call to mind Book Ten of Quintillian’s Institutio Oratoria, [...]
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