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Is Critical Thinking a Subject? Dr. Larry Wright

Join Dr. Larry Wright, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, as he explores the concept of critical thinking. Dr. Wright will discuss the relationship between reasoning and explaining, the normativity of function and goal, and more.

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Is Critical Thinking a Subject? Dr. Larry Wright

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  1. Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Time: 2:00-4:00 P.M. Location: Heritage Room, CLA Building, 8th floor Dr. Larry Wright is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. After briefly working as a professional engineer, Dr. Wright returned to academia and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University. He is the author of Teleological Explanations and three texts on critical thinking. In recent years he has written articles on argument and understanding, the deductive ideal, justification and discovery, the normativity of the notions of function and goal, and the relation between reasoning and explaining. He is currently working on a manuscript tracing the roots of the concept of a reason in agency. Is Critical Thinking a Subject?Dr. Larry Wright

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