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26Epistemology in Excess? A Response to WilliamsJournal of Philosophy of Education 51 (1): 193-213. 2017.Emma Williams’ ‘In Excess of Epistemology’ admirably endeavours to open the way to an account of critical thinking that goes beyond the one I have defended ad nauseum in recent decades by developing, via the work of Charles Taylor and Martin Heidegger, ‘a radically different conception of thinking and the human being who thinks’, one that ‘does more justice to receptive and responsible conditions of human thought.’ In this response I hope to show that much of Williams’ alternative approach is co…Read more
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19Dangerous Dualisms or Murky Monism? A Reply to Jim GarrisonJournal of Philosophy of Education 35 (4): 577-595. 2001.Jim Garrison’s recent criticisms of what he refers to as ‘dangerous dualisms’ in my theory of critical thinking are unsuccessful. They fail, in large part, because of misinterpretations of my view, but also because of Garrison’s systematic reliance on problematic aspects of Dewey’s terminology and philosophy.
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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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3Is It Irrational to be Immoral? A Response to FreemanEducational Philosophy and Theory 10 (2): 51-61. 1978.
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9Rationality, Morality, and Rational Moral Education: Further Response to FreemanEducational Philosophy and Theory 12 (1): 37-47. 1980.
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19Justification by BalancePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 27-46. 1992.A critique of reflective equilibrium as an account of epistemic justification
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18Epistemology in Excess? A Response to WilliamsJournal of Philosophy of Education 50 (4). 2016.Emma Williams’ ‘In Excess of Epistemology’ admirably endeavours to open the way to an account of critical thinking that goes beyond the one I have defended ad nauseum in recent decades by developing, via the work of Charles Taylor and Martin Heidegger, ‘a radically different conception of thinking and the human being who thinks’, one that ‘does more justice to receptive and responsible conditions of human thought.’ In this response I hope to show that much of Williams’ alternative approach is co…Read more
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95Argument Quality and Cultural DifferenceArgumentation 13 (2): 183-201. 1999.Central to argumentation theory is a concern with normativity. Argumentation theorists are concerned, among other things, with explaining why some arguments are good (or at least better than others) in the sense that a given argument provides reasons for embracing its conclusion which are such that a fair- minded appraisal of the argument yields the judgment that the conclusion ought to be accepted -- is worthy of acceptance -- by all who so appraise it
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21Neither Humean nor (fully) Kantian be: Reply to CuypersJournal of Philosophy of Education 39 (3). 2005.In this paper I reply to Stefaan Cuypers' explication and critique of my views on rationality and critical thinking (Cuypers, 2004). While Cuypers' discussion is praiseworthy in several respects, I argue that it (1) mistakenly attributes to me a Humean view of (practical) reason, and (2) unsuccessfully argues that my position lacks the resources required to defend the basic claim that critical thinking is a fundamental educational ideal. Cuypers' analysis raises deep issues about the motivationa…Read more
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42The bearing of philosophy of science on science education, and vice versa: the case of constructivismStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (1): 185-198. 2004.
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144Epistemic Normativity, Argumentation, and FallaciesArgumentation 11 (3): 277-292. 1997.In Biro and Siegel we argued that a theory of argumentation mustfully engage the normativity of judgments about arguments, and we developedsuch a theory. In this paper we further develop and defend our theory.
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14Knowledge and certainty: Feminism, postmodernism, and multi-culturalismIn Wendy Kohli (ed.), Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education, Routledge. pp. 190--200. 1995.
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65C. A. Hooker, Reason, Regulation, and Realism: Towards a Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason and Evolutionary Epistemology. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1995British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (1): 121-125. 1997.
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16Instrumental Rationality and Naturalized Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of Science 63 (5). 1996.In two recent papers, I criticized Ronald N. Giere's and Larry Laudan's arguments for 'naturalizing' the philosophy of science. Both Giere and Laudan replied to my criticisms. The key issue arising in both interchanges is these naturalists' embrace of instrumental conceptions of rationality, and their concomitant rejection of non-instrumental conceptions of that key normative notion. In this reply I argue that their accounts of science's rationality as exclusively instrumental fail, and conseque…Read more
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124Review of Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (1). 2007.
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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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42Rationality and anemia (response to baigrie)Philosophy of Science 55 (3): 442-447. 1988.In his (1988), Brian Baigrie criticizes my earlier discussion of the rationality of science (Siegel 1985). In this response, I argue that (1) Baigrie misses the point of my tripartite distinction between different questions one can ask about science's rationality, (2) Baigrie's argument that the history of the development of methodological principles is crucial to philosophical discussion of the rationality of science is flawed, and (3) Baigrie's charge that my view is "anemic" rests on a failur…Read more
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76Is confirmation differential?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (1): 105-119. 1989.
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