Full Description
In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In Rationality Redeemed?, a collection of essays written since that time, he develops this view, responds to major criticisms raised against it, and engages those critics in dialogue. In developing his ideas and responding to critics, Siegel addresses main currents in contemporary thought, including feminism, postmodernism and multiculturalism.
Contents
Introduction That Old-Time Enlightenment Metanarrative; Part One Development and Defense; Chapter 1 Epistemology, Critical Thinking, and Critical Thinking Pedagogy; Chapter 2 The Generalizability of Critical Thinking; Chapter 3 Teaching, Reasoning, and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; Chapter 4 Not by Skill Alone; Chapter 5 Why Be Rational?; Chapter 6 Critical Thinking and Prejudice; Part two Dialogue; Chapter 7 The Rationality of Reasonableness; Chapter 8 The Limits of a Priori Philosophy; Chapter 9 Gimme That Old-Time Enlightenment Metanarrative; Chapter 10 "Radical" Pedagogy Requires "Conservative" Epistemology; Chapter 11 Knowledge and Certainty; Feminism, Postmodernism, and Multigulturalism; Chapter 12 What Price Inclusion?; epilogue Why Care (About Epistemology, Justification, Rationality, Etc.)?;
