On Jul 31, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Hitchcock, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Well, that's one win for the team. Here's another significant omission of both 'critical thinking' and 'informal logic', from the list of sections for contributed papers to a world congress of philosophy. The program of world congresses of philosophy is organized by the Federation Internationale des Societes Philosophiques (FISP), a global federation of national philosophical societies such as the APA and the CPA. In addition to plenary sessions on the congress theme, it has 99 sections to which people can apply to present a contributed paper, some of which sections have sub-sections. For the list, see the first circular for the next world congress of philosophy athttps://www.fisp.org/documents/WCP%202018%20First%20Circular%20English.pdf . You will notice that, although cosmopolitanism and philosophy of food and philosophy of the axial period, among other recondite areas of investigation, are recognized as branches of philosophy, there is no listing for informal logic or critical thinking or philosophy of argument or theory of argumentation--in other words, no recognized branch of philosophy devoted to the philosophical investigation of argument and reasoning. Does anybody have any idea how to get a section added to FISP's list? It has been expanded enormously since I last looked at it, David
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From: AILACT DISCUSSION LIST [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Peter Facione [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: July 31, 2016 3:52 PM
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Subject: Re: address, critical thinking and "Jobs for Philosophers"

Excellent news!

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> On Jul 31, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Wagner, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Bravo!
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> Congratulations and well done, Steve!
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>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Steven Patterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> Just following up. Had a brief e-mail exchange with David Chalmers over the past week or so and there is now a "Critical Thinking" area at PhilPapers: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__philpapers.org_browse_critical-2Dthinking_&d=CwIF-g&c=y2w-uYmhgFWijp_IQN0DhA&r=srcAKVXGlgq-EGy4yMzdPmGUox7sOGJn6ivEUxBrRCY&m=SQizdrpHNaT_4NbXyJ3mWbEyo0m-lTyjOyokULUX7UA&s=zGwPw3eDJ_p-o_yuNi1wdGh72xIQtoivceDXJSmZ_CA&e= . I've accepted their offer to edit the category.
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>> I'll get started developing the category tomorrow (writing the basic description, going through the papers that are already classified there, etc.) tomorrow. Just wanted to pass along the good news.
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>> Hopefully this takes us towards next steps for getting CT recognized as an AOS/AOC?
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>> All best,
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>> Steve
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>> _________________________
>> Steven W. Patterson, Ph.D.
>> Professor, Philosophy
>> Chair, Division of Letters
>> Marygrove College
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>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__marygrove.academia.edu_StevenPatterson&d=CwIF-g&c=y2w-uYmhgFWijp_IQN0DhA&r=srcAKVXGlgq-EGy4yMzdPmGUox7sOGJn6ivEUxBrRCY&m=SQizdrpHNaT_4NbXyJ3mWbEyo0m-lTyjOyokULUX7UA&s=3dkoPCQPc8KEjJkADZHn7lcimbvJrxr1I8cM8Krzrvc&e=

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