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”

24. November 2012 by AAPT
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