Competing Viewpoints, Contested Facts - Civil Discourse and Teaching Faculty Lunch

Come join Dan Carpenter (Government), Ned Hall (Philosophy), and faculty colleagues over lunch to discuss a teaching challenge that strikes at the core of the academic enterprise: how do we teach when our students suspect our views on course material reflect our political biases rather than our scholarly expertise? What are the implications for our teaching when students not only hold different views, but don’t think of facts as things that can be agreed upon - and that it is not only useless but also disrespectful to try to change the way another person sees the world? How might we enable students to identify the circumstances under which they would be willing to admit that their view of the world and their facts are oversimplified? We will think through these problems together and discuss ways that we have approached them in our teaching. 

Open to all FAS faculty. Lunch will be provided.