CEHV's Aaron Yarmel co-authored "Noise Reduction in the Community of Philosophical Inquiry" in the Journal of Philosophy of Education with Maughn Gregory, the Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children and Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. 

From the abstract:

In a community of philosophical inquiry (CPI), as the term is used in the Philosophy for Children tradition, people with diverse experiences, beliefs, and values discuss a philosophical question of common interest and are prompted by a facilitator to challenge and build on one another’s ideas, to share relevant experiences, consider emotional responses, imagine new possibilities, and self-correct their understanding, including their value commitments. One goal of the CPI is to produce better judgments, and this goal is threatened by the presence of noise: unwanted variability in judgments that would, ideally, be identical. We argue that although noise is likely to emerge in the CPI because it is a context where participants share intuitive judgments with one another in the context of deliberation, facilitators can and should, nevertheless, take steps to reduce it.

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