Harvey Siegel

Education's Epistemology (eBook, PDF)

Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking

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Produktbeschreibung

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking; argues that 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. Siegel also argues, contrary to currently popular multiculturalist thought, for both transcultural and universal philosophical ideals, including those of multiculturalism and critical thinking themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190682682
• Artikelnr.: 54569917

Autorenporträt

Harvey Siegel is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, Coral Gables FL. He is the author of five books, most recently Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation and Teaching Thinking Skills. In addition, he has edited two books, including the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education. He works mainly in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of education.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface and Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Part I. Recent Statements and Developments of the Theory
* 1. Cultivating Reason
* 2. Education As Initiation into the Space of Reasons
* 3. Neither Humean Nor (Fully) Kantian Be
* Part II. Dispositions, Virtues, and Indoctrination
* 4. What (Good) Are Thinking Dispositions?
* 5. 'You Take the Wheel, I'm Tired of Driving; Jesus, Show Me the
Way': Doctrines, Indoctrination, and the Suppression of Critical
Dispositions
* 6. The Role of Reasons in Moral Education
* 7. Critical Thinking and the Intellectual Virtues
* 8. Open-Mindedness, Critical Thinking, and Indoctrination
* Part III. Values, Rationality, and the Value of Rationality
* 9. Is 'Education' a Thick Epistemic Concept?
* 10. Truth, Thinking, Testimony and Trust: Alvin Goldman on
Epistemology and
* Education
* 11. Rationality and Judgment
* 12. Too Much Epistemology? A Response to a Heideggerian
Reconceptualizing of Critical Thinking
* Part IV. Rationality and Cultural Diversity
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* 13. Multiculturalism and the Possibility of Transcultural Educational
and Philosophical Ideals
* 14. Argument Quality and Cultural Difference
* 15. Multiculturalism and Rationality
* 16. Epistemological Diversity and Educational Research: Much Ado
about Nothing Much?
* 17. How Should We Educate Students Whose Cultures Frown upon Rational
Disputation?: Cultural Difference and the Role of Reason in
Multicultural Democratic Education