The CT² site has now been up a month and received over 1100 unique visitors (the counter was added a little late) from all over the globe. While the traffic has waned since the first few days, I’ve received excellent feedback and extremely helpful suggestions from all sorts of people, all of which I have already implemented or will get to next summer. (I am a social epistemologist and try to make good use of the resources other people provide me!)
This week I met with some folks from the University of Windsor’s Centre for Teaching and Learning. A good deal of the ideas behind the CT² guide come out of the many workshops I’ve taken with them, and some others specifically from John Biggs’ Teaching for Quality Learning at University. This week Chris Smith and Erika Kustra gave me some pointers on developing the site, so that I can more effectively encourage better pedagogy in philosophical instruction about critical thinking.
CT² won’t change much between now and next summer, while my time is heavily occupied with my own teaching. However, I have been invited to give related talks: on the status quo fallacy at “Thinking and Speaking a Better World” in Qatar early January; on the relationship between feminist logic of argumentation and feminist philosophy of science at the Pacific APA in San Francisco late February; on adversarial argumentation in philosophy at the Central APA in New Orleans late March.
Then of course there’s OSSA here at Windsor in May, where I will not be presenting so I can be readily available as an organizer. There’s still time to submit your abstract.
If you find yourself at these places and have any comments on CT², please let me know!
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