Ethics Bowl

Ethics and Modes of Persuasion

As this series on critical thinking and ethics (applied to cases in this year’s Ethics Bowl) winds down, I’d like to make a...

Ethics Bowl - Correlation

Continuing to look at ways to apply critical-thinking principles to ethical dilemmas, including those making up national cases for this...

Ethics Bowl - Controlling for Bias

As I’ve described before, one of the benefits of logic-checking (that catch-all term for the set of critical-thinking practices you’ve...

Ethics Bowl - Hidden Premises

Ethical issues, like those covered in this year’s (and every year’s) Ethics Bowl championships, cannot be solved using the same methods...

Ethics Bowl – What’s in a Word?

Note: I'll be taking a brief pause on a series I started that will cover rhetoric to look more deeply into the role critical thinking can...