The last paper of the day for me was Donald Hatcher's "Should Critical Thinking Courses Include the Critique of Religious Beliefs?" <\/p>\n
Hatcher argued for various reasons that religious beliefs ought to be subject to critical scrutiny. He ran through about eight potential objections to critiquing religious beliefs (I'll try to get a copy of the handout if not the paper), answering them all and concluding that indeed religious beliefs ought to be subject to critical scrutiny in critical thinking courses.<\/p>\n
So far so good. One questioner wondered, however, whether there are special considerations in college courses. Most of Hatcher's arguments concerned the general question of scrutiny of relgious beliefs, not, as advertised, the particular question of classroom critique. The paper commenter had similar intuitions, pointing out that some religious views might best be considered in opposition to certain scientific views (such as for instance evolution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last paper of the day for me was Donald Hatcher's "Should Critical Thinking Courses Include the Critique of Religious Beliefs?" Hatcher argued for various reasons that religious beliefs ought to be subject to critical scrutiny. He ran through about eight potential objections to critiquing religious beliefs (I'll try to get a copy of the … Continue reading OSSA Day One: Religion in Critical Thinking Class?<\/span>