Category: Philosophy

  1. Eva van der Brugge

    ‘The Use of Argument Mapping in Improving Critical Thinking’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2018). Critical thinking is not defined clearly enough to guide teachers in practice. Even within the broad definitional categories that can be discerned, individual definitions are rarely specific enough to allow for clear educational or assessment frameworks. Purpose-built critical thinking tests mostly fail […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/23/eva-van-der-brugge

  2. George Wood

    ‘The Feeling of Metaphor’ (MA in Philosophy, 2019). There is a tendency in analytic philosophy of language to separate a metaphor’s affective powers, often identified with its ability to make us ‘see’ things in new ways, from a conception of its meaning. This is the case in the non-cognitivist denial that there is such a […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/23/george-wood

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