Education's epistemology : rationality, diversity, and critical thinking / Harvey Siegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegel, Harvey, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical thinking.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages)

Other Title:

Rationality, diversity, and critical thinking

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This collection extends and further defends the "reasons conception" of critical thinking that Harvey Siegel has articulated and defended over the last three-plus decades. This conception analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality of candidate beliefs, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the 'critical spirit', that are central to a proper account of critical thinking; argues that epistemic quality must be understood ultimately in terms of epistemic rationality; defends a conception of rationality that involves both rules and judgment; and argues that critical thinking has normative value over and above its instrumental tie to truth.

Contents:

Recent statements and Developments of the Theory

Cultivating Reason

Education as Initiation into the Space of Reasons

Neither Humean nor (Fully) Kantian Be

Dispositions, Virtues, and Indoctrination

What (Good) Are Thinking Dispositions?

"You Take the Wheel, I'm Tired of Driving; Jesus, Show Me the Way": Doctrines, Indoctrination, and the Suppression of Critical Dispositions

The Role of Reasons in Moral Education

Critical Thinking and the Intellectual Virtues

Open-Mindedness, Critical Thinking, and Indoctrination

Values, Rationality, and the Value of Rationality

Is "Education" a Thick Epistemic Concept?

Truth, Thinking, Testimony, and Trust: Alvin Goldman on Epistemology and Education

Rationality and Judgment

Epistemology in Excess?: A Response to a Heideggerian Reconceptualizing of Critical Thinking

Rationality and Cultural Diversity

Multiculturalism and the Possibility of Transcultural Educational and Philosophical Ideals

Argument Quality and Cultural Difference

Multiculturalism and Rationality

Epistemological Diversity and Educational Research: Much Ado about Nothing Much?

How Should We Educate Students Whose Cultures Frown upon Rational Disputation?: Cultural Difference and the Role of Reason in Multicultural Democratic Education.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 22, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-068269-8

0-19-068270-1