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Justine Kingsbury

University of Waikato
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Areas of Specialization
Naturalizing Mental Content
Reasoning
Aesthetics
Areas of Interest
Naturalizing Mental Content
Informal Logic
Reasoning
Aesthetics
  •  365
    Virtue and Argument: Taking Character Into Account
    with Tracy Bowell
    Informal Logic 33 (1): 22-32. 2013.
    In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ways in which these virtues can be developed in ourselves and in others, virtue argumentation theory does not offer a plausible alternative definition of good argument
    Virtue Ethics, MiscInformal LogicArgument
  •  133
    How Can We Get Students to Think Critically about Intransigent Beliefs?
    with Tracy Bowell
    Teaching Philosophy 40 (4): 395-405. 2017.
    Part of the job of the philosophy teacher, and in particular the critical thinking teacher, is to encourage students to critically examine their own beliefs. There are some beliefs that are difficult to think critically about, even for those who have critical thinking skills and are committed to applying them to their own beliefs. These resistant beliefs are not all of a kind, and so a range of different strategies may be needed to get students to think critically about them. In this paper we su…Read more
    Philosophy of Education
  •  67
    Critical thinking and the argumentational and epistemic virtues
    with Tracy Bowell
    In this paper we argue that while a full-blown virtue-theoretical account of argumentation is implausible, there is scope for augmenting a conventional account of argument by taking a character-oriented turn. We then discuss the characteristics of the good epistemic citizen, and consider approaches to nurturing these characteristics in critical thinking students, in the hope of addressing the problem of lack of transfer of critical thinking skills to the world outside the classroom.
    Informal Logic
  •  52
    A Philosophy of Mass Art
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4): 405-407. 2000.
    Aesthetics