AILACT @ the APA: past programs
APA Eastern, December 28-30, 2010, Boston, MA
Topic: Current Issues in Critical Thinking
Papers dealing with Michael S. Roth’s thesis that critical thinking is inimical to important humanistic goals will be favored: "Beyond Critical Thinking”
http://chronicle.com/article/Beyond-Critical-Thinking/63288
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Group Session at the Pacific Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, March 31 - April 4, 2010, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA
Session: The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 8:00-10:00, Meeting Room to be announced.
Chair: Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College)
Speaker: Dale Turner, California State Polytechnic University–Pomona, “You’re Not an Idiot or Evil, But You Are Wrong: Some Reflections on the Epistemic Significance of Disagreement”
Commentators: Jerry Cederblom, University of Nebraska–Omaha
Zenon Culverhouse, Mount St. Mary’s College
Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University
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Group Session at the Central Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, February 17-20, 2010, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Session: Topics in Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Friday, February 19, 2010, 7:00-10:00 PM, Meeting Room to be announced
Chair: Kevin Possin, Winona State University
Speakers: Hans V. Hansen, Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor,
"Picturing Conductive Arguments”
Thomas Keyes, Our Lady of the Lake University,
“Dewey, Pulp Fiction, and Reinforcing Critical Thinking Concepts”
Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University,
Eric Parkinson, Syracuse University, &
Michael Aparicia, Santa Rosa Junior College,
“Teaching Critical Thinking Online”
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Group Session at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, December 27-30, 2009, Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York, NY
Session: Argument Assessment in Informal Logic
December 30, 2009, 1:30-4:30 PM, Meeting Room to be announced.
Chair: To be announced
Speakers: David Hitchcock, McMaster University,
“The Case that Inferences are General”
Commentator: To be announced
Gary Seay, Medgar Evers College, CUNY and
Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State University,
“Reasoning, Normativity, and Experimental Philosophy”
Commentator: Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
James B. Freeman, Hunter College, CUNY,
“Is Epistemic Probability Pascalian?”
Commentator: Dan Cohen, Colby College
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2009 PACIFIC DIVISION APA MEETING, AILACT SESSIONS
VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA April 8-12, 2009
Session 1: Friday, April 10, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
On-Line Courses in Critical Thinking
Chair: Wanda Teays, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles
(wteays@msmc.la.edu)
Speakers: Darin Dockstader, College of Southern Nevada
(darin.dockstader@csn.edu)
"Teaching Critical Thinking Online: Getting Started"
N. Mark Rauls, College of Southern Nevada
(norman.rauls@csn.edu)
"Teaching Critical Thinking Online: The Long View"
Session 2: Saturday, April 11, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
The Role of the Context in Critical Thinking
(A Joint Presentation)
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2009 CENTRAL DIVISION APA MEETING, AILACT SESSION
CHICAGO, FEB. 18-21, 2009 - Friday, Feb. 20, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Kevin Possin (Winona State University)
Speakers:
Gary Seay (Medgar Evars College/CUNY) and
Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
"Critical Thinking as an Autonomous Discipline"
Richard Trowbridge (Bryant & Stratton College)
"Critical Thinking and Wisdom"
Panel Discussion:
"Critical Thinking: General or Domain-Specific Skills"
Jerry Kapus (University of Wisconsin-Stout),
Frank Fair (Sam Houston State University), and
Jan Sobocan (University of Western Ontario)
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2008 EASTERN DIVISION APA MEETING, AILACT SESSION
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Dec. 28-30, 2008 -
Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: T. Edward Damer, Emory & Henry College
Topic: Fallacies
Speakers: Gary Seay, Medgar Evers College, CUNY and
Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State University
"Is There a Naturalistic Fallacy? And Should Anyone Be Worried About It?"
Comment: Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
Sergio Novani, University of Urbino
"The 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Fallacy' is a Fallacy"
Comment: TBA
William Goodwin, Swarthmore College
"The 'Passes for' Fallacy"
Comment: Eric Silverman, Christopher Newport University
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Group Session at APA Central Division, April 2008
Panel Discussions on Issues in Informal Logic Pedagogy
Date and Time: Friday, April 18, 2008, 7:00-10:00 pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Meeting Room TBA
Chair: Kevin Possin (Winona State University)
Topic: Computer-Assisted Argument Mapping
Panelists: Maralee Harrell, Carnegie Mellon University,
Andrew Norman,Carnegie Mellon University,
Douglas Walton, University of Winnipeg,
Mark Daly, California State University, Northbridge,
Claudia Alvarez Ortiz, University of Melbourne.
Topic: The Perils and Promises of Teaching Critical Thinking Online
Panelists: Geoffrey Frasz, College of Southern Nevada,
Jerry Voltura, University of Alaska, Anchorage,
Michael Malone, Northern Arizona University,
David Hitchcock, McMaster University.
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AILACT Group Sessions at the APA Pacific Division, March 19-23, 2008
Session: Critical Thinking: Testing and Evaluation
Date and Time: Friday, March 21, 8:00-10:00 pm
Place: TBA
Chair: Wanda Teays, Mount St. Mary's College
Speakers: Robert H. Ennis, University of Illinois UC (Emeritus), "A Summary and Discussion of 'Nationwide Testing of Critical Thinking for Higher Education: Vigilance Required' (Teaching Philosophy, March, 2008)”
Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University (Psychology),
"The Logic of Evaluation"
Session: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Critiques of Religion
Date and Time: Saturday, March 22, 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: TBA
Chair: Darin Dockstader, The College of Southern Nevada
Speakers: Jerry Cederblom, University of Nebraska Omaha,
"Critical Reasoning, Belief, and Religious Faith."
Donald L. Hatcher, Baker University,
"Critical Thinking and Religion: The Ethics of Belief Revisited."
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AILACT SESSION, session at the APA Eastern Division, December 27-30, 2007 in Baltimore, MD.
Session: Author Meets Critics: Hot Thought by Paul Thagard
Date and Time: Sunday Morning, December 30, 2007, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Place: Bristol Room (Third Floor) Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD,
Chair: Daniel N. Boone
Critic: Carole J. Lee
Critic: Christopher Viger
Author-Respondent: Paul Thagard
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, 2007, Session Co-Sponsored with APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, at the APA Central Division Meetings, Parlor B, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL: Assessing Critical Thinking
Chair: David Hunter, Ryerson University
Speakers: Robert H. Ennis, Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "A Required National Test of Thinking for College Students in the USA whose Institutions Receive Federal Money?"
Leo Groarke, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Teaching"
Gerald Nosich, Buffalo State College, "Some Ways to Assess Critical Thinking in Discipline-Based Courses"
Discussant: Steven Norris, University of Alberta
5:15 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 19, 2007, at the APA Central Division Meetings, Private Dining Room 6, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Chair: Peter D. Asquith, Michigan State University
Speaker: Daniel Cohen, Colby College
"Virtue Epistemology and Critical Inquiry: Open-Mindedness and a Sense of Proportion as Critical Virtues"
Commentator: Jay Wood (Wheaton College)
Speaker: Patrick Riesterer, McMaster University
"Pragma-Dialectics: A Critique"
Commentator: George Boger (Canisius College)
9 a.m. to 12 noon Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at the APA Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, CA
Author-Meets-Critics: James B. Freeman's Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem
Chair: Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Critics: Richard Feldman, University of Rochester
Hans V. Hansen, University of Windsor
Mark Weinstein, Montclair State University
Author: James B. Freeman, Hunter College of The City University of New York
8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 2007, at the APA Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, CA
Chair: Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada,Las Vegas
Speaker: Jerry Cederblom, University of Nebraska-Omaha
"Is It Sometimes Rational to Accept That an Argument is Sound, but Not Believe the Conclusion?"
Commentator: Don Marquis, University of Kansas
Speaker: Mark Weinstein, Montclair State University
"Towards an Objectivist Account of Truth in Argument"
Commentator: Donald Hatcher, Baker University
6:30 to 9:30 pm. Wednesday, December 27, 2006, at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Virginia Suite B (Lobby Level), Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
Chair: Daniel N. Boone, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Speaker: Richard F. Galvin, Texas Christian University, "Legal Moralism and the U.S. Supreme Court"
Commentators: Alan E. Fuchs, College of William and Mary; Robert Hoag, Berea College
9 a.m. to 12 noon Thursday, 27 April 2006, at APA Central Division Meeting, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL
Chair: Betsy Newell Decyk, California State University, Long Beach
"Learning to Teach Informal Logic: Aligning Graduate Education with Hiring and Work Realities"
(jointly sponsored by The American Association of Philosophy Teachers [AAPT] and the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking [AILACT])
Panelists:
Rod Bertolet, Purdue University
Adrianne McEvoy, Mansfield University
Ralph Johnson, University of Windsor
Tony Blair, University of Windsor
5:15 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday, 27 April 2006, at APA Central Division Meeting, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL
Chair: Peter D. Asquith, Michigan State University
Speaker # 1: Tom Solon, Danville Area Community College
"Generic Critical Thinking: Infusion and Course Content Learning in Introductory Psychology"
Commentator: Donald L. Hatcher, Baker University
Speaker #2: David Sherry, Northern Arizona University
"Yanal et al. on Linked and Convergent"
Commentator: Robert J. Yanal, Wayne State University
7:15 to 10:15 Friday, 24 March 2006 at APA Pacific, Portland Hilton, Portland, OR
Chair: David Hunter, Buffalo State College (SUNY)
Speaker #1: John Woods (University of British Columbia and King's College, London)
"A Resource-Based Approach to Fallacies"
Commentator: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University)
Speaker #2: John Hoaglund (Christopher Newport College)
"Classical Logic as Foundational - Some Questions"
Commentator: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
Speaker #3: David Sherry (Northern Arizona University)
"Formal Logic for Informal Logicians"*
(*David Sherry's paper is the winner of the 2005 AILACT Essay Prize)
11: 15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, 28 December 2005 at APA Eastern, Hilton New York, New York City, NY
Chair: Daniel N. Boone, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Speaker: Jonathan E. Adler (CUNY--Brooklyn)
"Refute-or-Accept: Credulity, Reductios, and Ignorance"
Commentators: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
8:15 to 11:15 p.m., Friday, March 25, 2005: Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, Group Session, Elizabethan C, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Chair: Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
Part 1: Theoretical Issue:
Speaker: Lilian Bermejo-Luque, (University of Murcia, Spain)
"The Relationship between Reasoning and Arguing"
Commentator: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Part 2: Forum on Standardized Critical Thinking Tests
Speaker #1: Kevin Possin (Winona State University)
"Assessing Critical Thinking Assessment Tests"
Speaker #2: Leo Groarke (Wilfrid Laurier University)
"What is Wrong with the CCTST? Critical Thinking Testing and Educational Accountability"
Speaker #3: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
"Using the Ennis-Weir and the CCTST for Outcomes Assessment: Which Test Should You Choose?"
Commentator: Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
5:15 to 7:15 p.m., Thursday, April 28, 2005: Central Division, American Philosophical Association, Group Session GII-12, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago
Chair, Peter D. Asquith (Michigan State University)
AILACT 2004 Prize Winning Essay: Marcello Guarini (University of Windsor)
"A Defence of Non-deductive Reconstructions of Analogical Arguments"
Commentator: Jon Ringen (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Ralph Johnson (University of Windsor)
"Theory and Practice Again: Challenges from Pinto and Toulmin"
Commentator: Jordan Lindberg (Central Michigan University)
12:00-2:00 p.m. Sunday, 25 April, 2004, at APA Central, Private Dining Room 7 (Third Floor), Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL
Chair: John Hoaglund (Christopher Newport University)
Speaker: Robert H. Ennis (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
"Qualified Reasoning, Deductive Validity, and Conduction"
Speaker: Daryl Close (Heidelberg College)
"What Is the Inference in Inferential Statistics?"
Speaker: Christine Hendricks (University of Wisconsin, Rock County)
"Critical Thinking and Transcendence"
7:30-10:30 p.m. Wednesday, 24 March, 2004, at APA Pacific, Sheraton Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, CA
Chair: Scott Dixon (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Chris Campolo (Hendrix College), "Misology and Equipollence"
Commentator: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
Speaker: Daniel Cohen, Colby College, "Argumentation and Modal Logic On the Argumentatively Possible and the Logically Impossible"
Commentator: Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
"You Should Have Reasons for Your Views?"
Commentator: Jonathan Adler (City University of New York, Brooklyn College)
11: 15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Sunday, 28 December 2003 at APA Eastern, Bancroft Room, Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC
Author meets Critics:
Paradox and Paraconsistency by John Woods
Chair: Daniel N. Boone, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Critic: Roy A. Sorensen, Dartmouth College
Critic: Bradley Armour-Garb, SUNY Albany
Author: John Woods, University of British Columbia
9 a.m. to 12 noon Thursday, 24 April 2003 at APA Central, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, OH
Speaker: Claude Gratton, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, "Counterexamples and Degrees of Support"
Commentator: Margaret Cuonzo, Long Island University
Speaker: Thomas E. Gilbert, Morningside College, "The Formal Nature of Some Informal Fallacies"
Commentator: Nancy Hancock, Northern Kentucky University
Speaker: Arnold Wilson, University of Cincinnati, "Lottery Logic. Practical Application of Rationality, Probability, and Fallacy"
Commentator: Daryl Close, University of Heidelberg
6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, 29 March 2003 at APA Pacific, Elizabethan D, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Chair: Betsy Decyk (California State University-Long Beach)
Speaker: Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania State University), "Rationality and the Preface Paradox."
Commentator: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Speaker: Randy Mayes (California State University-Sacramento), "On the Function of Explanation in Informal Reasoning"
Commentator: Bill Johnson (California State University-Long Beach)
Speaker: Claude Gratton (University of Nevada-Las Vegas), "Student Beliefs that are Obstacles to Critical Thinking Dispositions and Motivation."
Commentator: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
11: 15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Saturday, 28 December 2002 at APA Eastern, Marriott Room 405, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Issues in the Psychology of Reasoning
Speaker: James Fetzer, "Mental Models: Descriptive vs. Normative Aspects"
Chair: Daniel N. Boone
Commentator: David E. Over
Commentator: James Moor
March 2002 at APA Pacific
Chair: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
Speaker: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska at Omaha), "Reason and Emotion in Argument"
Commentator: Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University)
Speaker : Bruce Davidson (Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan), "What Kind of Critical Thinking Best Suits Japan?"
Commentator: Sharon Bailin (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker: Jack R. Weinstein (University of North Dakota), "An Eighteenth Century Informal Logic: Adam Smith's Theory of Argumentation"
Commentator: Mark Battersby (Capilano College)
March 2001 at APA Pacific
Chair of Session: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
Speakers: Noreen C. Facione (University of California at San Francisco) and Peter A. Facione (Santa Clara University),
"Argument Analysis: A Tool to Describe High Stakes Decision Making"
Commentator: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Speaker: Michael Scriven (Claremont Graduate School),
"Ensuring Synergy between Assessment and Instruction in the Critical Thinking Course (including some thoughts for philosophy courses in general)"
Commentator: Jerry Nosich (University of New Orleans)
Speaker: Connie Missimer (Seattle, Washington), "What Empirical Evidence Can Be Found for 'Reasonableness' as a Heuristic Device?"
Commentator: Claude Gratton (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
December 2000 at APA Eastern
Emotions and Reasoning
Speaker: Robert Solomon, University of Texas at Austin,"Rationality and the Emotions"
Chair: Michael J. Wreen , Marquette University
Commentator: Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto
Commentator: Craig DeLancey, Indiana University at Bloomington
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