Don Lazere’s short but punchy piece in the Chronicle on the beleaguered state of critical thinking education in the American academy is well worth a read. While I find myself agreeing with much of what he says, I think he misses one of the principal actors in the play: the increasing role of corporate influence [...]
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“Baby Logic”, Critical Thinking, and the Liberal Arts
Posted in Connections, Critical Thinking, Teaching, tagged American universities, baby logic, Chronical of Higher Education, colleges, critical thinking, critical thinking education, Donald Lazere, education, education in America, formal logic, general education, Informal Logic, liberal arts, Teaching, teaching critical thinking, teaching logic on July 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Fallacies Concept Map
Posted in Fallacies, Informal Logic, Teaching, tagged concept map, fallacies, fallacy files, infographics, logic, philosorapters, Teaching on February 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Here’s a lovely graphical representation of the family of fallacies via The Fallacy Files. (Note: I found out about this infographic first via the Philosorapters blog, which gives advice on job hunting mostly but also occasionally on teaching philosophy.) I think many readers of RAIL will find this way of cutting the cake rather interesting, [...]
Call for Nominations: 2011 Kairos Awards
Posted in Announcements, Teaching, tagged academic blogs, awards, computers and writing conference, Kairos, kairosnews, Rhetoric, webtexts on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kairos currently presents three annual awards: The Kairos Best Webtext Awards for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos). The John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award (formerly Kairos Best Academic Weblog Award) for an outstanding blog devoted largely to academic pursuits. The [...]
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Posted in Connections, News, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, dark arts, Jody McIntyre, journalism ethics, mass media, Rhetoric on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The folks over at the blog Less Wrong use the term ‘dark arts’ to refer to the usage of knowledge about heuristics and biases, fallacies, and human rationality generally in a manipulative, destructive or otherwise sinister way. A recent post there focuses on this manner of using presuppositions: An excellent way of doing this is [...]
New Text Book Announcement: Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking
Posted in News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Teaching, tagged argumentation theory textbooks, Bailin, Battersby, Reason in the Balance on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear colleagues We would like to let you know about our new book which has just been published: Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking. The approach taken to critical thinking instruction is dialectical, focusing on the kind of comparative evaluation of contending positions and arguments which we make in actual contexts of [...]
New Site on Argument Mapping
Posted in Teaching, tagged argument diagramming, argument mapping, Argument Maps/Diagrams, Argumentation, van Gelder on July 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Browsing the Argumentation Blog today turned up this announcement of an interesting website devoted to argument mapping, created by argument mapping guru Tim van Gelder. The site is aimed at university level educators, and offers a kind of clearinghouse of information and resources on the subject of argument mapping, including links to trial versions of [...]
Critical Thinking; Creative Thinking
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Teaching, tagged analysis, classroom, creativity, critical thinking, Jonah Lehrer, Teaching on April 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Many of us teach service courses called “Critical Thinking” in our colleges and universities. Exactly what ‘critical thinking’ means, however, is and has been the source of much vexation. Reading this blog post by neuroscience researcher and popularizer Jonah Lehrer put me in mind of a discussion I’ve sometimes heard bits and pieces of in [...]
Argument Diagramming/Mapping in the Classroom
Posted in Discussion, Teaching, tagged argument diagramming, argument mapping, Argument Maps/Diagrams, Argumentation, philosophy, Teaching on February 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’ve recently begun experimenting with diagramming arguments in my classes–and not my Critical Thinking/Informal Logic classes, but the other more traditional philosophy classes that I teach. I’ve tried using a few different programs to set my diagrams up (Araucaria, Carneades) but so far what works best are color-coded, free-hand “VanGelder-style” diagrams done on a transparency [...]
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