Reasoning, Argumentation and Critical Thinking Instruction. RACT 2015 25-27 February 2015, Lund University. Held Wed to Fri, 25-27 February 2015. At Lund University, Sweden. RACT2015 brings together international experts from fields as diverse as education, philosophy, speech communication, psychology, mathematics, and rhetoric, among others . Of particular significance are key-results obtained in the research program on heuristics and biases in human decision-making.

We are a politically diverse group. Of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars who want to improve our academic disciplines and universities. We share a concern about a growing problem. The loss or lack of viewpoint diversity. When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged. All I Want for Christmas is Consistent Freedom of Speech.

Sustainable access to adequate water ranks among the most serious challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Finding solutions requires coordinated efforts by natural and social scientists, engineers, water managers, policy-makers, and stakeholders from the broader community. These groups have diverse interests, values, histories, and disciplinary perspectives. Watersheds viewed as community systems.