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Apr 3, 20215 min read
Ethics and Modes of Persuasion
As this series on critical thinking and ethics (applied to cases in this year’s Ethics Bowl) winds down, I’d like to make a...
Mar 25, 20214 min read
Ethics Bowl - Correlation
Continuing to look at ways to apply critical-thinking principles to ethical dilemmas, including those making up national cases for this...
Mar 18, 20214 min read
Ethics Bowl - Controlling for Bias
As I’ve described before, one of the benefits of logic-checking (that catch-all term for the set of critical-thinking practices you’ve...
Mar 11, 20215 min read
Ethics Bowl - Hidden Premises
Ethical issues, like those covered in this year’s (and every year’s) Ethics Bowl championships, cannot be solved using the same methods...
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Ethics Bowl – What’s in a Word?
Note: I'll be taking a brief pause on a series I started that will cover rhetoric to look more deeply into the role critical thinking can...