RIT Office of Graduate
Studies Presents
Graduate Student Success
Workshop Series Special Speaker and Panel Night
October 20th 2014
Reading Room, Second Floor of
The Campus Center
Special Speaker at 4 p.m.
Chip Sheffield
“The Virtues of Critical
Thought and Its Importance for Graduate Education”
Critical
thinking is often characterized by certain core abilities (evaluation,
identification, synthesis, recognition and critique, as well as effective
communication). It has also been described in terms of certain underlying
attitudes (introspection and self-reflection, continuous questioning,
and a commitment to core intellectual virtues such as civility, humility,
empathy, integrity, and courage). Critical thinking demands
accountability and curiosity. It requires that one take responsibility
for one’s beliefs and values, and engage actively in the world. While
intellectual rigor, logical argumentation, and rational judgment are vital,
they must not occur in isolation from the broader lived world. Critical
thinking need not always be drily cerebral, but it should demonstrate agility,
and admit the playful and ironic. What is criticality? Does it
always necessarily imply a refinement, improvement or sharpening of the issue
under consideration? What are the implications of the belief that
“thinking critically is the quintessence of what it means to be truly alive in
the fullest sense of the term?” This talk will examine such questions,
and underscore their significance, especially for graduate education at RIT.
Clarence
B. Sheffield, Jr. "Chip" is the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied
Critical Thinking at RIT. He was trained as a modern art historian at Bryn
Mawr, with a particular interest in the theory, criticism, and history of
visual and material culture. His field of special scholarly expertise is
Scandinavian Modernism--very broadly construed to include art, architecture,
design, film and literature. He is an associate professor in RIT's College of
Imaging Arts and Sciences. He majored in philosophy as an undergraduate, and
has had a deep and abiding interest in philosophy and critical inquiry for
much of his academic career.
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