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Jan Albert van Laar - May 3rd 1PM ET
Jan Albert van Laar works at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He teaches the philosophy of argumentation, writes about fallacies, types of dialogue and multimodal argumentation, and develops educational software for argumentative dialogue. Currently, Jan Albert is exploring some connections between argumentation and compromise, a topic he has previously discussed with Erik Krabbe in four co-authored papers (open access):
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In 2017, “Splitting a Difference of Opinion: The Shift to Negotiation”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10503-017-9445-7
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In 2018, “The Role of Argument in Negotiation”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10503-018-9458-x
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In 2019, “Criticism and Justification of Negotiated Compromises: The 2015 Paris Agreement in Dutch Parliament”: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jaic.18009.laa
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In 2019, “Pressure and Argumentation in Public Controversies: A Dialogical Perspective”: https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5739
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Mark Battersby is Professor Emeritus at Capilano University, where he taught for over 40 years. He has also taught critical thinking at the University of British Columbia and Stanford University, as well as presenting numerous professional development workshops. He was the founder of the British Columbia Association for Critical Thinking Research and Instruction and led a BC Ministry curriculum reform initiative based on learning outcomes. He has facilitated Philosophy Cafes for over 10 years.
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He has written numerous articles on critical thinking, and is the author of Is That a Fact: A Field Guide to Scientific and Statistical Information (Broadview, 2nd Ed , 2016), and, with Sharon Bailin, Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking (2nd Ed. Hackett, 2016). Both texts have been translated into Chinese and the latter was rewritten to make it culturally appropriate for Chinese students and published by Renmin University Press in 2022. In 2018 Windsor Studies in Argumentation published Inquiry: A New Paradigm for Critical Thinking, a collection of his and Bailin's papers on their approach to critical thinking.
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Sharon Bailin, a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, has written and presented extensively in the areas of critical thinking, argumentation theory, and creativity.
She is the author, along with Mark Battersby, of the text, Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking (2nd Ed., Hackett, 2016), which provides a guide to applying inquiry across a range of areas. The text takes a dialectical approach to critical thinking as inquiry, focusing on the kind of comparative evaluation of contending positions and arguments which we make in actual contexts of disagreement and debate. Inquiry: A New Paradigm for Critical Thinking, a collection of Battersby's and Bailin's articles published by Windsor Studies in Argumentation, provides the theoretical background to their approach to conceptualizing and teaching critical thinking as inquiry.
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To see their approach in action in their textbook, look here: https://hackettpublishing.com/philosophy/critical-thinking/reason-in-the-balance-second-edition
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To read about the theoretical foundations of their approach, look here: https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/54
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For thoughts on critical thinking and belief-maintenance, see: What Should I Believe?: Teaching Critical Thinking for Reasoned Judgment - Sharon Bailin, Mark Battersby - Teaching Philosophy (Philosophy Documentation Center) (pdcnet.org)
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For the role of adversariality in critical-thinking education, see: Is There a Role for Adversariality in Teaching Critical Thinking? | Topoi (springer.com)