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8El Pensamiento Crítico Como Un Ideal EducacionalLogos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura 23 (2): 272-292. 2013.El Pensamiento crítico como un ideal educacional
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7Critical Thinking as an Intellectual RightAnalytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 8 (1). 1987.This chapter is adapted from Siegel, in which I argue that the critical thinker is best thought of as one who is appropriately moved by reasons. In this view, critical thinking involves a variety of reasoning and other cognitive skills; knowledge of various sorts; a set of tendencies or dispositions to exercise those skills and utilize that knowledge; the valuing of reasons and an appreciation of their epistemological force; and a certain sort of character. I am grateful to David Moshman and Car…Read more
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7Reason and Education: Essays in Honor of Israel SchefflerSpringer Verlag. 1996.Israel Scheffler is the pre-eminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world today. This volume collects seventeen original, invited papers on Scheffler's philosophy of education by scholars from around the world. The papers address the wide range of topics that Scheffler's work in philosophy of education has addressed, including the aims of education, cognition and emotion, teaching, the language of education, science education, moral education, religious education, and human pote…Read more
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7Justifying Conceptual Development Claims: response to van HaaftenJournal of Philosophy of Education 27 (1): 79-86. 1993.This paper is a response to van Haaften’s attempt to build ‘a natural bridge from “is” to “ought”’ and in doing so to provide a general account of how, in developmental theory, a claim that ‘a later stage in conceptual development is somehow better or more adequate than preceding ones’ can itself be justified. The account by van Haaften violates the ‘seems justified/is justified’ distinction and embroils him in a problematic form of relativism. This paper offers an alternative account of such cl…Read more
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7Goldman, Alvin I. (1999), Knowledge in a Social World (review)Argumentation 16 (3): 369-382. 2002.
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6Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd : The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of ScienceScience & Education 22 (3): 729-731. 2013.
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6Replies to the ReviewsPaideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 11 (2): 27-37. 1998.
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6Cultivating ReasonIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Critical Thinking Critiques of Reason The Fundamental Reply to All Critiques of Reason.
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6Rational Thinking and Intellectually Virtuous Thinking: Identical, Extensionally Equivalent, or Substantively Different?Informal Logic 43 (2): 204-223. 2023.(1) Is the rational person _eo ipso_ intellectually virtuous? (2) Is the intellectually virtuous person _eo ipso_ rational? In what follows I answer both questions in the negative.
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5Goldman, Alvin I. (1999), Knowledge in a Social World (review)Argumentation 16 (3): 369-382. 2002.
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3Is It Irrational to be Immoral? A Response to FreemanEducational Philosophy and Theory 10 (2): 51-61. 1978.
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2Book Reviews : Sociology, Equality and Education. By ANTONY FLEW. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. 128. $13.75 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (1): 116-119. 1979.
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1Nicholas Rescher, Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason (review)Ethics 109 (4): 917-919. 1999.
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1Epistemology and Philosophy for ChildrenAnalytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 8 (2). 1987.No indictment of existing education is more serious than the charge that it fosters uncritical rather than critical dispositions. It is difficult to see how the addition of anything but epistemology - and even more importantly of philosophy in general - can remedy that deficiency. The sentiment expressed here by Professor Matthew Lipman is a profound one. I agree completely that education has, as one of its fundamental tasks, the fostering of critical dispositions. I agree, moreover, that episte…Read more
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Introduction: Philosophy of Education and PhilosophyIn The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--8. 2009.
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Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological RelativismBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (3): 419-427. 1989.
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43. the incoherence argument and the notion of relative truthIn Steven Luper (ed.), Essential Knowledge: Readings in Epistemology, Longman. pp. 446. 2003.
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