Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education

ISBN-13: 9780415001755 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 191 str.

Harvey Siegel;Siegel

Opis

Beginning with a discussion of the 'informal logic movement' and the renewed interest in critical thinking in education, Educating Reason critically assesses the work of Robert Ennis, Richard Paul and John McPeck.

Spis treści

Introduction Rationality, critical thinking and education; Chapter 1 Three conceptions of critical thinking; Chapter 2 The reasons conception; Chapter 3 The justification of critical thinking as an educational ideal; Chapter 4 The ideology objection; Chapter 5 The indoctrination objection; Chapter 6 Science education; Chapter 7 Minimum competency testing; Towards a theory of rationality;

O autorze

Harvey Siegel Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Miami