A guest lecturer will argue that developing critical thinking skill in students is imperative for university educators.
Philosophy
Nov 20th, 2013
Philosopher Marcello Guarini will present “Order Effects, Moral Cognition, and Intelligence” in a free public talk Thursday.
Nov 12th, 2013
A free public lecture Wednesday will discuss Sir Isaac Newton’s methodological and metaphysical commitments.
Marc Angenot will present a dialectical and rhetorical history of the conspiratorial mind in a public lecture Thursday.
Nov 6th, 2013
A free public lecture Thursday will present a dialectical and rhetorical history of the conspiratorial mind.
Field learning: Chris Reid explores the Campus Community Garden with local youth participating in the “Changing the Odds” program.
Aug 15th, 2013
Participants in the “Changing the Odds” program will present a free public performance on Friday, August 16.
May 21st, 2013
If you want to pick a fight, you’ll get no argument from Hans Hansen. The philosophy professor is preparing for the Ontario Society for the Study of Argument conference, “Virtues of Argumentation,” to be held at the University of Windsor this week.
The conference, hosted by the Centre for Research on Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, runs May 23 to 25. It will feature keynote addresses by:
A master’s student in philosophy will discuss approaches to evaluating the truthfulness of stories in a free public lecture entitled “Reasoning through Narratives and the Social Contexts of Evaluation,” Thursday, May 2, at 2 p.m. in room 209, Essex Hall.
While words may elicit mental images, pictures act directly on our sensibilities by actually placing events visually in front of us, as if they were in fact unfolding before our eyes, says Jens Kjeldsen.
This ability to create presence is one of the qualities he will explore in a free public lecture Thursday entitled “Four Rhetorical Potentials of Images.”
A professor of rhetoric at Norway’s University of Bergen and Sweden’s Södertörn University, Kjeldsen is also president of the Rhetoric Society of Europe.
Apr 5th, 2013
Although people view argumentation as a contest between parties trying to achieve a victory, that view is incorrect, says Steven Patterson.
A visiting research fellow at the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric, he will explore the cooperative nature of argumentation, even in adversarial contexts, in a free public lecture, “Cooperative Intentions in Argumentation,” on Friday, April 5, at 2 p.m. in room 207, Essex Hall.
The 18th century philosopher Giambattista Vico developed a radical, modern conception of individuality, says the next lecturer in the Humanities Research Group’s Distinguished Speakers Series.
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University, will deliver his free public lecture “The Representation of the Self in Vico’s Autobiography” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University.