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Claude Gratton

University of Toronto, St. George Campus
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  • Thinking in Education (review)
    Informal Logic 23 (1): 105-110. 2003.
    Informal Logic
  • Louis Althusser, L'Avenir dure longtemps suivi de Les faits (review)
    Philosophy in Review 14 4-4. 1994.
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    Critical Thinking and Small Group Activities
    Informal Logic 30 (4). 2010.
    I mention the benefits, challenges, and costs of using small group activities to enhance our students’ learning of critical thinking skills in our courses, and then describe ten examples of these groups. Two of these examples are not commonly reported in the literature on small groups, so I describe them in greater detail to facilitate their use in our courses
    Informal Logic
  •  168
    Circular definitions, circular explanations, and infinite regresses
    Argumentation 8 (3): 295-308. 1994.
    This paper discusses some of the ways in which circular definitions and circular explanations entail or fail to entail infinite regresses. And since not all infinite regresses are vicious, a few criteria of viciousness are examined in order to determine when the entailment of a regress refutes a circular definition or a circular explanation.
    Epistemic RegressPhilosophical Methods
  •  59
    Using Counterexamples to Estimate Degrees of Support
    Belief
  •  151
    Plantin's L'argumentation
    Informal Logic 19 (2). 1999.
    Informal Logic
  •  75
    Infinite Regress of Recurring Questions and Answers
    I examine a number of infinite regress arguments whose infinite regresses are presented or described in terms of recurring questions and answers in order to determine whether such recurring questions have any role in generating these infinite regresses, or in disqualifying the recurring answers. I argue that despite the existence of such infinite regress arguments and the suggestions of some philosophers, these recurring questions have no such roles. Some ways of handling these infinite regress …Read more
    Philosophical Methods
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    Commentary on Gough