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Here we have, for the first time in a single volume, diverse perspectives on the meaning, conditions, and goals of critical reasoning in contemporary culture. Part One emphasizes critical reasoning and education, engaging the debate over the connection between critical reasoning skills and the learning of the content.
Part Two offers analyses of the theoretical, methodological, and historical debates concerning critical reasoning abilities. The authors represent a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches which lend the book valuable intellectual pluralism.
The book evaluates other aspects of critical thinking such as creativity, insight, questioning, learning, practical thought, interpretation, intellectual prejudice, and the historical and temporary aspects of thought.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: THEORIES OF CRITICAL REASONING AND EDUCATION
The Problems of Skills versus Content
1. Conflicting Views on Teaching Critical Reasoning
Robert H. Ennis
Theories That Emphasize Content
2. Teaching Critical Reasoning through the Disciplines: Content versus Process
John E. McPeck
3. Cultural Literacy and Critical Literacy
Donald Lazere
Theories That Emphasize Skills
4. Critical Reasoning and Informal Logic
Ralph H. Johnson
5. Education and the Fostering of Rationality
Harvey Siegel
6. Creativity, Critical Reasoning, and the Problem of Content-Oriented Education
Robert J. Sternberg
Beyond Skills and Content
7. Teaching Critical Reasoning in the Strong Sense: Getting Behind World Views
Richard W. Paul
8. The Imperative Focus: A Prerequisite for Critical Reasoning
Lenore Langsdorf
PART II. PROBLEMS FOR THEORY OF CRITICAL REASONING
The Problem of Methodology
9. Taking Cover in Coverage: Critical Reasoning and the Conflict of Theories
Gerald Graff
10. Whose Reason? Which Canon? Critical Reasoning and Conflicting Ideas of Rationality
R.W. Sleeper
The Problem of History
11. Postmodernism and the Possibility of Critical Reasoning
Stanley Rosen
12. Critical Reasoning and History
Richard A. Talaska
The Problem of the Unity of Source for Critical Reasoning
13. Critical Reasoning and the Second Power of Questions: Towards First Questions and First Philosophy
Eva T.H. Brann
14. Theology and Critical Reasoning: Ignatius' Understanding of the Jesuit University
Michael J. Buckley, S.J.
The Problem of Values
15. Evaluation and Critical Reasoning: Logic's Last Frontier?
Michael Scriven
Biographical Sketches of Contributors
Index