Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

 

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

 

Start Date: 2/19/2010
End Date: 2/19/2010
Location: Central APA Meeting in Chicago, Illinois

 

Description:

Conference: Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Topic: Please send your suggestions on any topic in informal logic, critical thinking, or argumentation, their instruction, their assessment or their relations with other disciplines and world events.  Ideas regarding a guest speaker, an author-meets-critics, or a joint session with another Group meeting are very welcome.  And please forward this announcement to anyone else who might be interested.  Possible topics include: Critical Thinking/Informal Logic and the war in Iraq, CT/IL and religious belief, CT/IL and relativism, the nature of CT/IL, and whether state-wide efforts making CT a graduation requirement have improved students' CT skills.  

Deadlines: Papers and [confirmed] speaker lists must be submitted by August 31, 2009.  Send papers as attachments in pdf or MS Word.  Send all submissions to the Program Chair, Kevin Possin, Winona State University, kpossin@winona.edu.

http://www.apaonline.org/resources/CFP's/CriticalThinking-InformalLogic.aspx