Using Peer Instruction to Teach Philosophy, Logic and Critical Thinking

April 2009

Sam Butchart, Toby Handfield and Greg Restall, “Using Peer Instruction to Teach Philosophy, Logic and Critical Thinking” Teaching Philosophy, 32:1 (2009) 1–40.

We explain how Eric Mazur’s technique of Peer Instruction may be used to teach philosophy, logic and critical thinking — to good effect.

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my personal website. ¶ I am the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology ¶ I like thinking about – and helping other people think about – logic and philosophy and the many different ways they can inform each other.

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