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Robert H. Ennis
Nationwide Testing of Critical Thinking for Higher Education:
Vigilance Required
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The Spellings Commission recommends widespread critical-thinking testing to help determine the “value added” by higher education institutions—with the data banked and made available (“transparent”) in order to enable parents, students, and policy makers to compare institutions and hold them accountable. Because of the likely and desirable promotion of critical thinking that would result from the Commission’s program, I recommend cooperation by critical-thinking faculty and administrators, but only if there is much less comparability and considerably deeper transparency of the tests and their justification than the Commission recommends, and only if vigilance in handling the many problems and dangers elaborated herein is successful.
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Brian Ribeiro
How Often Do We (Philosophy Professors) Commit the Straw Man Fallacy?
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In a recent paper (in Argumentation, 2006) Robert Talisse and Scott Aikin suggest that we ought to recognize two distinct forms of the straw man fallacy. In addition to misrepresenting the strength of an opponent’s specific argument (= the representation form), one can also misrepresent the strength of one’s opposition in general, or the overall state of a debate, by selecting a (relatively) weak opponent for critical consideration (= the selection form). Here I consider whether we as philosophy professors could be seen as sometimes committing the selection form of the straw man through the performance of our regular teaching duties.
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Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias
Polling as Pedagogy:
Experimental Philosophy as a Valuable Tool for Teaching Philosophy
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First, we briefly familiarize the reader with the emerging field of “experimental philosophy,” in which philosophers use empirical methods, rather than armchair speculation, to ascertain laypersons’ intuitions about philosophical issues. Second, we discuss how the surveys used by experimental philosophers can serve as valuable pedagogical tools for teaching philosophy—independently of whether one believes surveying laypersons is an illuminating approach to doing philosophy. Giving students surveys that contain questions and thought experiments from philosophical debates gets them to actively engage with the material and paves the way for more fruitful and impassioned classroom discussion. We offer some suggestions for how to use surveys in the classroom and provide an appendix that contains some examples of scenarios teachers could use in their courses.
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Derek Malone-France
Composition Pedagogy and the Philosophy Curriculum
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This essay extends the recent trend toward greater emphasis on writing-related pedagogical practices in introductory philosophy courses to upper-division courses, providing a holistic model for course design that centers on certain techniques and practices that have been developed in the context of the new wave of multidisciplinary writing programs in the United States. I argue that instructors can more effectively teach philosophy and encourage philosophical thinking by incorporating the methods of writing instruction into their courses in systematic ways and offer practical guidance on how to do so.
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Carrie-Ann Biondi
The Power of Critical Thinking:
Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, 2nd edition
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Brian Domino
Varieties of Practical Reasoning
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Richard W. Momeyer
Ethics in the First Person:
A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics
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Norman Mooradian
The Nature of Moral Reasoning:
The Framework and Activities of Ethical Deliberation, Argument and Decision-Making
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Todd R. Long
Riddles of Existence:
A Guided Tour of Metaphysics
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Dale Murray
The Nature of Art:
An Anthology
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John Mizzoni
Introduction to a Philosophy of Music
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James A. Manos
Toward a New Socialism
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Ashley Hardcastle
Little Big Minds:
Sharing Philosophy with Kids
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