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Logic used to be a fairly popular course on this campus. We would routinely offer four or five sections every quarter. But since the recent changes to the reasoning requirement in the DTA, very few […]

Logic has taken a real hit at BC since the recent changes to the Direct Transfer Agreement. But we just might manage to run two sections of it this fall. We will need some more students though. There are […]

This time we bring you a dialogue on moral realism authored by our newest philosopher Greg Damico (you might recall Greg as the BC philosopher who recently won the national Rockerfeller prize).

MANNY:  P […]

We often ask students to explain one thing or another. Judging from the single sentence or sentence fragment responses we often get, it seems to me that our students all too often don’t really understand wh […]

Critical Thinking Note 8: What Would Follow From ThatHere’s a useful reasoning pattern: test a claim by seeing what follows from it deductively and considering whether there are g […]

Everybody thinks it’s good to be open-minded. But we don’t often think critically about just what it means to be open-minded. We might think that being open-minded means allowing that others’ opinio […]

Critical thinking is purposeful thinking. But just what is the purpose of critical thinking? Why think critically? As a branch of human inquiry, philosophy has a pretty clear view of the purpose of […]

The Philosophy Dept. (not just me, but most of us) will be running a Critical Thinking Curriculum Development workshop through the Faculty Commons this year and our first meeting is just two weeks from now. This […]

So I’ve been talking all year about how Philosophy is going to write this free Critical Thinking Text for the BC community. Meanwhile Mark Storey has actually done so. A complete draft should be ready to share […]

Why Climate Skeptics are in Denial
The fossil fuel constituency has long exploited popular misunderstanding of the logic behind the science of climatology and I think this calls for a re-appraisal of how we teach […]

Tim Linnemann on Intellectual Virtue
This time we feature a discussion of some intellectual virtues by our adjunct instructor Tim Linnemann. I really like the intellectual virtues. They aren’t half as annoying a […]

Critical Thinking Note 1
 

Here is a critical thinking problem that will be familiar to many instructors. We ask students to give a reason for believing something and they answer with a single sentence, […]

Dr. Jill Wakefield has convened a Strategic Plan Update (SPU) Steering Committee to review and revise the Strategic Plan. Key tasks for the group will include:

Develop an updating process for annual […]

THIS WEEK

♦ TODAY! Wed., January 18, 2017 – The Twilight Project. 12:30 to 1:20 PM.  Carlson Theatre, Admission free.  Click here for more information.
♦ 2017 Art Department Faculty Exhibition. The show ru […]

THIS WEEK

♦ TONIGHT! Wed. January 11, 2017  – Jim Sisko’s Bellevue College Jazz Orchestra at Tula’s.  Click here for more information

♦ January is National Stalking Awareness Month.  Click here to read more […]

THIS WEEK

♦ January is National Stalking Awareness Month.  Click here to read more information.

♦ Thurs. Jan. 5 – Wear your Black Lives Matter T-shirts to show support for our Black Student Unio […]

SYLLABI / OFFICE HOURS
♦ Syllabi!!  Thank you to all the early birds that submitted your syllabi links for winter 2017.  All other faculty remember to use Gordon Leighton’s syllabi template which includes all t […]