AAPT at 2013 Central APA
The 2013 APA Centraldivision conference will be February 20-23, 2013
at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, LA
There will be two sessions co-sponsored by the AAPT
I.
Tentative time Thursday, February 21, 5:25 PM- 7:25 PM
Session sponsored by
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking and
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
Topic: New Approaches to Designing Critical Thinking Courses
Chair: Steven W. Patterson (Marygrove College)
Speakers:
- Maria Sanders (Lone Star College-CyFair)
“Preserving Character in the Classroom: A Virtue-Based Approach to Teaching Informal Logic and Critical Thinking”
- Lisa Cassidy (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
“Doing ‘Civic Scene Investigation’ in Critical Thinking Classes”
- Lawrence A. Lengbeyer (United States Naval Academy)
“The Potential of Argument Mapping”
II.
Tentative time Thursday, February 21, 7:30 PM-10:30 PM
Session sponsored by
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking and
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
Topic: Psychology and Critical Thinking
Chair: Frank Fair (Sam Houston State University)
Speakers:
- Cathal Woods (Virginia Wesleyan College)
“Rationality and Irrationality: The Role of Psychology in Critical Thinking Courses”
- Frank Zenker (Lund University, Sweden) & Timothy A. Kenyon (University of Waterloo)
“Teaching to Combat Biased Reasoning in Critical Thinking Courses”
- H. E. Baber (University of San Diego)
“Teaching Psychologically Based Informal Fallacies”
- Jonathan Ellis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Motivated Reasoning in Critical Thinking”
