Education's epistemology : rationality, diversity, and critical thinking /
Education's Epistemology extends and defends Siegel's ""reasons conception"" of critical thinking, developing it in both philosophical and educational directions. Of particular note is its emphasis on epistemic quality and epistemic rationality and its concerted defense...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Education's Epistemology; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part ONE 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 TWO 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 Virtues8. Open-Mindedness, Critical Thinking, and Indoctrination; Part THREE 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. Epistemology in Excess?: A Response to a Heideggerian Reconceptualizing of Critical Thinking; Part Four Rationality and Cultural Diversity; 13. Multiculturalism and the Possibility of Transcultural Educational and Philosophical Ideals
- 14. Argument Quality and Cultural Difference15. 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; Index