The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions the 2012 AILACT Essay Prize. Value: $300 U.S. The prize-winning paper will be published in Informal Logic, contingent upon meeting the conditions specified in the prize’s notice, available at http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/. Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers [...]
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2012 AILACT Prize
Posted in CFP, Contests & Competitions, tagged AILACT, AILACT Essay Prize, argumentation theory, critical thinking, Informal Logic on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
CFP: OSSA 2013: Virtues of Argumentation
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, C. Thomas Goodnight, calls for papers, Dan Cohen, Informal Logic, Marianne Doury, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, OSSA 2013, Rhetoric on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Proposals Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) VIRTUES of ARGUMENTATION May 22-25, 2013 University of Windsor Keynote speakers: Daniel H. Cohen, Department of Philosophy, Colby College Marianne Doury, Communication & Politics, CNRS – Paris G. Thomas Goodnight, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California The OSSA Organizing Committee invites proposals [...]
SEP Entry on Informal Logic Updated
Posted in Announcements, Informal Logic, tagged Informal Logic, Leo Groarke, stanford encyclopedia of philosophy on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick announcement here to let you know that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Informal Logic has been updated by author Leo Groarke. The update is a substantial one and includes a great many new resources in the links section. Thanks are due to Leo for his work on this. Do check [...]
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. [...]
CFP: Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
Posted in CFP, tagged affective education, Argumentation, contemporary psychology and sociology, CRRAR, emotion, history of psychology, Informal Logic, Jon Elster, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, the history of emotion, the scholarship of teaching and learning, University of Windsor on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences A Symposium at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Canada 20th to 21st of April, 2012. Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2011 In Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions [Cambridge, 1999], Jon Elster argues that “with an important subset of the emotions [for example, regret, relief, envy, [...]
Informal Logic vol. 31 no.2
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rhetoric, tagged argument diagramming, argument schemes, Argumentation, artificial intelligence, Cathal Woods, diagramming objections, Geoff Goddu, Informal Logic, intellectual empathy, Maureen Linker, process-product distinction, responding to prejudice, Tangming Yuan, Tim Kelly on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Volume 31, number 2 of Informal Logic is now available for your reading pleasure. Particularly recommended in this issue is Geoff Goddu’s 2010 AILACT Essay Prize-winning article on the process/product ambiguity. I had the good fortune to see this work in an earlier phase at ISSA last summer and I’m very happy to see it [...]
“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 »
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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