Critical thinking is a vital part of scholarship, yet the meaning of this notion and the conditions it presupposes are far from self-evident. In fact, critical thinking is understood in a number of ways, and depending on which meaning the notion of critical thinking is associated to, different conditions for its realization can be envisaged. Thus, in this book some of these meanings and conditions are explored, seeing the development of critical thinking both in relation to history and to contemporary lines of thought. It appears that critical thinking is a matter of dealing with abstract...
Critical thinking is a vital part of scholarship, yet the meaning of this notion and the conditions it presupposes are far from self-evident. In fact,...