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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: An Invitation -- Chapter 1 A Foolish Question: Isn't It Time We Replaced Critical Thinking? -- Chapter 2 The Baby and the Bathwater: The Birth of Critical Thinking -- Chapter 3 A Hitch or Two: Polemic, Violence, and the Case for Critical Thinking -- Chapter 4 We Can't Go On Together (with Suspicious Minds) -- Chapter 5 An Immodest Proposal: Let's Replace Critical Thinking with Creative, Loving, Open-Source Thought -- Chapter 6 "Sure, It Works in Practice, but Will It Work in Theory?" -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: An Open Invitation -- Some Final Ideas and Questions. |
| Summary |
"Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a "critical thinker." The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical "attack" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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Creative thinking. |
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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Thought and thinking. |
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Creative thinking.
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Critical thinking.
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Critical thinking. |
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Thought and thinking.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Finn, Patrick, 1966- Critical condition.: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015 (CaOONL)20159015952 |
| ISBN |
9781771121590 (epub) |
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1771121599 |
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9781771121583 (pdf) |
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1771121580 |
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9781771121576 |
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1771121572 |
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