The ways we think : from the straits of reason to the possibilities of thought / Emma Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Emma, 1984 May 14- author.

Series:

Journal of philosophy of education book series.

Journal of Philosophy of Education Book Series.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical thinking.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

The Ways We Think critiques predominant approaches to the development of thinking in education and seeks to offer a new account of thought informed by phenomenology, post-structuralism and the 'ordinary language' philosophical traditions. * Presents an original account of thinking for education and explores how this alternative conception of thought might be translated into the classroom * Explores connections between phenomenology, post-structuralism and ordinary language philosophical traditions * Examines the relevance of language in accounts of how we think * Investigates the philosophical accounts of Gilbert Ryle, Martin Heidegger, John Austin and Jacques Derrida * Draws upon experience of own teaching practice as philosopher-in-residence

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Today's Thinking: Following the Lines of Rationalism

INTRODUCTION

THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF THINKING

Thinking in Educational Policy

Thinking in Practice

Some Initial Questions

THINKING IN THEORY

Introduction

Critical Thinking

Thinking Skills

Richer than Rationalism?

Philosophy for Children

Philosophy in Schools

Summary

THE SUBJECT OF THOUGHT

Thinking as Representation

The Thinking Subject

THE EXPERIENCE OF THINKING

Possible Challenges

A Phenomenological Route

Overview of Book

NOTES

Chapter 2 A Brief Detour: 'Authentic' and 'Poetic' Thinking

AUTHENTIC THINKING

POETIC THINKING

PROBLEMS WITH BONNETT'S ACCOUNT

Problems with Authentic Thinking

Problems with Poetic Thinking

BEYOND BONNETT

Chapter 3 'Ahead of All Beaten Tracks': Ryle, Heidegger, and the Ways of Thinking

'AHEAD OF ALL BEATEN TRACKS'

A SHARED PATH

Ryle's Positive Reception of Phenomenology

Heidegger's Indebtedness to Husserl

Ryle Contra Phenomenology

Heidegger's Critique of Husserl

AT THE CROSSROADS

Ryle's Interpretation of Heidegger

The Knowledge Objection

The Charge of Subjectivism

FORGING A NEW PATH

Being-in-the-World Reconsidered

Returning to Ryle

Meaning and Interpretation

Truth as Disclosure and Truth as Correctness

RYLE REVISITED

WAYS OF THINKING

Chapter 4 A Way Beyond: Thinking Responsibly with Heidegger

THE TURN TO LANGUAGE

Language in Question

Language as Representation

Language as Productive

Language and Poiesis

Revealing and Concealing

A WAY BEYOND

Beyond Subjectivism

The Context of Disclosure.

Responsiveness, Not Resignation

An Example

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THINKING

Implications and Consequences

Example One: The Cabinet Maker's Apprentice

Example Two: The Jug and the Fourfold

CONCLUSION

Chapter 5 Following the Sign: Derrida and the Language of Thought

A THEMATIC POINT

ROUTE ONE: PAST STRUCTURALISM

Traditional View of Signs

Sassurean Foundations

Glimpsing the Opening

DERRIDA'S ACCOUNT OF SIGNS

Saussure's Relapse

Derrida's Critique

Writing and 'Arche-Writing'

TWO KEY NOTIONS

Difference and Differance

The Metaphysics of Presence

Chapter 6 Out of the Ordinary: Incorporating Limits with Derrida and Austin

AUSTIN

From Descriptions to Performatives

Meaning, Thoughts, and Contexts

RETRACING DERRIDA

Loose Ends

Austin's Exclusions

'So What?' Objections

Ditches and Differences

CAVELL'S CRITIQUE

Introducing Cavell

Cavell's Challenge

Responding to Cavell

Cavell Reconsidered

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Chapter 7 The Way Before the Way Before: Crossing Paths with Heidegger and Derrida

PRELIMINARY THREADS

EARLY

Spirit of Being and Time

The Question of the Question

MIDDLE

Spirit of the 'Rectorship Address'

Political Questions

Politics and Metaphysics

Humanism and Presence

Geopolitics and the German Language

EARLIER

From Gesitig to Geistlich

The Conversation with Trakl

The Promise

An Impassable Path?

ANOTHER WAY TO THE OTHER

THE WAY BEFORE THE WAY BEFORE

Chapter 8 A Weaving of the Ways: The Open Possibilities of Thought

REVISTING RATIONALISM

Educational Policy and Practice

Rationalism in Theory

Rationalistic Assumptions

AN ALTERNATIVE PICTURE

NEW WAYS OF THINKING.

Thinking against Representation

Beyond the 'Subject'

Re-thinking Aims

Further Clarifications

RE-THINKING THINKING EDUCATION

Lived Experience

Example One: A Lesson in Argument

Two Alternative Examples

A (Not So) Final Word

Bibliography

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119129585

1119129583

9781119129578

1119129575

OCLC:

935251698