Education's epistemology : rationality, diversity, and critical thinking

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Education's epistemology : rationality, diversity, and critical thinking

Title remainder

rationality, diversity, and critical thinking

Statement of responsibility

Harvey Siegel

Creator

• Siegel, Harvey, 1952-

Subject

• Critical thinking
• Education
• Knowledge, Theory of

Language

eng

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.--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized