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Special Issue of TOPOI: Reasoning, Argumentation, Critical Thinking Instruction

Submission Deadline: 30 OCTOBER 2015

Peer review stage: about 8 weeks; revised papers: January 2016; online-first: April 2016
 

Following the RACT2015 conference, held 25-27 FEB at Lund University, we invite submissions of papers for publication in a special issue of TOPOI (http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245). Papers must be in the order of 6000 to 8000 words (including references), and must address one or more of the conference themes (listed at http://ract2015.wordpress.com), whether from an empirical or a more conceptual perspective. Other than promoting rigor and quality of scholarship (as evidenced, for instance, by demonstrating, familiarity with the relevant literature), this special issue primarily seeks to inform readers who wish to reduce the distance between the research front and what is (falsely) presented to students as the state-of-the-art in critical thinking instruction. Therefore, papers should be of immediate relevance to those who teach or coordinate instruction in critical thinking as part of school or university education, either as dedicated courses or across the curriculum, or plan to do so. Of special relevance is the current trend to appropriate research on social, cognitive and other biases, as well as on two systems or two processes accounts of human reasoning.

 
Among those invited to submit to this special issue are the RACT keynote speakers:

Jean Goodwin (Department of English, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA)
Jean-François Bonnefon (CLLE Research Center, CNRS Toulouse, France)
Michael Weinstock (Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel)
Robert Ennis (College of Education, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA)
Rebecca Schendel (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
Ulrike Hahn (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, London, UK)
 
The following authors of section papers (listed at: https://ract2015.wordpress.com/program/), also have agreed to submit their work:
 
Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo) and Guillaume Beaulac (Yale University)
Mariusz Urbanski and Katarzyna Paluszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Chip Sheffield (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA)
Moira Howes (Trent University, Canada)
Gabor Tahin (Downside School, UK)
 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Having been prepared for blind review, manuscripts must be submitted on or before 30 OCTOBER at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/ (for which you may have to create a user account), by selecting “S.I. RACT 2015 (Zenker)” from the pull-down menu. Submissions must follow these standards:

• 6000-8000 words (incl. abstract and references)
• at least 3 cm margins (left, right); double line spacing; 12 point font, Times New Roman
• Use section numbers (1. Introduction; 2. Section, 2.1 Subsection, etc)
• follow “Instructions for authors” at: http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245

All papers have to pass through the peer review stage before they can be published. Those unsure whether a given topic fits this special issue may submit a brief abstract (max 200 words) to the editor, Frank Zenker, at frank.zenker@fil.lu.se to receive feedback.