Maintaining a critical dialogue

Dialogue Theory for Critical Thinking

A general outline of a theory of reasoned dialogue is presented as an underlying basis of critical analysis of a text of argument discourse. This theory is applied to the analysis of informal fallacies by showing how textual evidence can be brought to bear in argument reconstruction, Several basic types of dialogue are identified and described, but the persuasive type of dialogue is emphasized ...

Dialogue and Critical Thinking 1 DIALOGUE AS MEDIUM (AND MESSAGE) FOR TRAINING CRITICAL THINKING1 by

Standard internalist approaches to critical thinking insist that critical thinkers maintain conscious, deliberate access to the reasons for their beliefs and actions. A more useful approach is externalist, focusing on the reliability of different types of processes for generating beliefs and decisions under different circumstances. We describe an externalist approach to critical thinking based ...

McCoy on Keiser’s Niebuhr: A Post-Critical Dialogue

TARP redundancy is critical for maintaining AMPA receptor function.

Transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory proteins (TARPs) are AMPA receptor auxiliary subunits that influence diverse aspects of receptor function. However, the full complement of physiological roles for TARPs in vivo remains poorly understood. Here we find that double knock-out mice lacking TARPs gamma-2 and gamma-3 are profoundly ataxic and fail to thrive. We demonstrate that these TARPs are cr...

Critical Dialogue in HCI: Principles as Places for Reflection

In this paper we argue that one of the major contributions of critical theory to HCI is a shift in principles that organize the selection of problems, methods, and phenomena that are considered by researchers and designers. We take this position to propose that a key area of research that is largely neglected in HCI is a systematic study of principles. More specifically we know little about the...