| Start Date: | 12/2/2013 | Start Time: | 3:00 PM |
| End Date: | 12/2/2013 | End Time: | 4:00 PM |
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Event Description
Drexel Student Learning Priorities | Creative and Critical Thinking
Everyone likes to think that he or she is a rational person and that his or her ideas are well grounded in rationality. But we don't often think about what exactly it means to be rational or reasonable, or for our ideas to be characterized that way. To begin with, it is easy to think that “being rational” means “being right”. But these are important issues to separate. Second: we often mistake rationality for “objectivity” understood as “neutrality”. But it can’t be that simple—sometimes what seems and is most patently rational occurs to us as making a claim upon us, compelling us, involving us in activity, provoking us to action. In this workshop, we'll discuss and explore the various shades of meaning related to the idea of rationality and the way it is expressed in the Drexel Student Learning Priority associated with "Creative and Critical Thinking."
Some questions for discussion during our session:
• Why is it rational to consider “validity” and “truth” as separate issues?
• How are "convergent," "divergent," and "emergent" thinking related?
• What does "bias" really mean in relation to rationality?
• Why do the "arts and sciences" require one another for each to succeed?
You will leave the session with a more focused understanding of the meaning of "rationality," how creative and critical thinking are designed to help you develop and exercise it, and how working toward these educational goals will enhance your life prospects both in your career and as a human being.
Date: Monday, December 2, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: MacAlister 2019, 3250-60 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104
Presenter: Dr. Peter Amato, Director, Programs in Philosophy and Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Refreshments will be served. Promotional materials will be distributed to all students that attend the event. |
Contact Information:
Name: Iuliana Balascuta
Phone: 215 571-3853
Email: ib53@drexel.edu |
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Location:
MacAlister 2019, 3250-60 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 |
Audience:
Current Students |
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