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Routledge
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First Published in 1988. The critical thinking movement is increasingly important in the philosophy of education. Beginning from the generally accepted view that children should be taught to reason, not simply to repeat what they have been told, it tries to establish whether it is in fact possible to teach children a set of skills which add up to thinking. Siegel here examines three major... Read more
Introduction Rationality, critical thinking and education; Chapter 1 Three conceptions of critical thinking; Chapter 2 The reasons conception; Chapter 3 The justification of critical thinking as an educational ideal; Chapter 4 The ideology objection; Chapter 5 The indoctrination objection; Chapter 6 Science education; Chapter 7 Minimum competency testing; Towards a theory of rationality;
Biography
Harvey Siegel Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Miami
