Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004714057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book is for anyone interested in these topics, whether they are veterans or relative newcomers to the field because the editors have assembled a stellar group of seventeen international contributors. There are four sections devoted, respectively, to philosophical perspectives, developmental psychology, educational practices, and assessment. Each section consists of three initial chapters followed by a commentary that highlights notable themes and gives guidance for further inquiry. Along with the Introduction and Epilogue contributed by the editors, Daniel Fasko and Frank Fair, the chapters develop themes such as the role of the ideas of Aristotle and Kant in shaping our moral development and educational practices. Here readers will encounter informative discussions of, among other things, “The 4Es of Virtuous Purpose,” “The Rational Construction of Morality,” and “Philosophy Goes to High School.” Readers are also led to consider “Measures of Moral Identity,” “The EQUIP Program,” and “Assessing Value Clarity and Moral Blueprints.” The diversity of expertise and the international vantage points of the contributors make this book an informative overview for the expert and a useful introduction for the beginning student concerning the issues involved. Contributors are: Jennifer Baker, Marvin W Berkowitz, M. Neil Browne, Michael W. Creane, Juan P. Dabdoub, Frank Fair, Daniel Fasko, Jr., John C. Gibbs, David Kaspar, Ján Knapík, Martina Kosturková, Shane McLoughlin, Chad Miller, Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, David Moshman, G. Felicitas Munzel, Renee B. Patrick, Timothy S. Reilly and Di You.
Critical Thinking in Moral Development
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004714057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book is for anyone interested in these topics, whether they are veterans or relative newcomers to the field because the editors have assembled a stellar group of seventeen international contributors. There are four sections devoted, respectively, to philosophical perspectives, developmental psychology, educational practices, and assessment. Each section consists of three initial chapters followed by a commentary that highlights notable themes and gives guidance for further inquiry. Along with the Introduction and Epilogue contributed by the editors, Daniel Fasko and Frank Fair, the chapters develop themes such as the role of the ideas of Aristotle and Kant in shaping our moral development and educational practices. Here readers will encounter informative discussions of, among other things, “The 4Es of Virtuous Purpose,” “The Rational Construction of Morality,” and “Philosophy Goes to High School.” Readers are also led to consider “Measures of Moral Identity,” “The EQUIP Program,” and “Assessing Value Clarity and Moral Blueprints.” The diversity of expertise and the international vantage points of the contributors make this book an informative overview for the expert and a useful introduction for the beginning student concerning the issues involved. Contributors are: Jennifer Baker, Marvin W Berkowitz, M. Neil Browne, Michael W. Creane, Juan P. Dabdoub, Frank Fair, Daniel Fasko, Jr., John C. Gibbs, David Kaspar, Ján Knapík, Martina Kosturková, Shane McLoughlin, Chad Miller, Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, David Moshman, G. Felicitas Munzel, Renee B. Patrick, Timothy S. Reilly and Di You.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004714057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book is for anyone interested in these topics, whether they are veterans or relative newcomers to the field because the editors have assembled a stellar group of seventeen international contributors. There are four sections devoted, respectively, to philosophical perspectives, developmental psychology, educational practices, and assessment. Each section consists of three initial chapters followed by a commentary that highlights notable themes and gives guidance for further inquiry. Along with the Introduction and Epilogue contributed by the editors, Daniel Fasko and Frank Fair, the chapters develop themes such as the role of the ideas of Aristotle and Kant in shaping our moral development and educational practices. Here readers will encounter informative discussions of, among other things, “The 4Es of Virtuous Purpose,” “The Rational Construction of Morality,” and “Philosophy Goes to High School.” Readers are also led to consider “Measures of Moral Identity,” “The EQUIP Program,” and “Assessing Value Clarity and Moral Blueprints.” The diversity of expertise and the international vantage points of the contributors make this book an informative overview for the expert and a useful introduction for the beginning student concerning the issues involved. Contributors are: Jennifer Baker, Marvin W Berkowitz, M. Neil Browne, Michael W. Creane, Juan P. Dabdoub, Frank Fair, Daniel Fasko, Jr., John C. Gibbs, David Kaspar, Ján Knapík, Martina Kosturková, Shane McLoughlin, Chad Miller, Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, David Moshman, G. Felicitas Munzel, Renee B. Patrick, Timothy S. Reilly and Di You.
The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538133792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Thinker’s Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering. Students and professionals across engineering will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging authoritative framework set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder. For engineers to properly reason through engineering projects requires strong analytic skills. The best engineers are clear about their purposes, gather sufficient information, and develop innovations. This requires critical reasoning and this guide offers tools essential to this process. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538133792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Thinker’s Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering. Students and professionals across engineering will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging authoritative framework set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder. For engineers to properly reason through engineering projects requires strong analytic skills. The best engineers are clear about their purposes, gather sufficient information, and develop innovations. This requires critical reasoning and this guide offers tools essential to this process. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.
Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society
Author: Yama, Hiroshi
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799818136
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Studies on human thinking have focused on how humans solve a problem and have discussed how human thinking can be rational. A juxtaposition between psychology and sociology allows for a unique perspective of the influence on human thought and morality on society. Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society is an in-depth critical resource that provides comprehensive research on thinking and morality and its influence on societal norms as well as how people adapt themselves to the novel circumstances and phenomena that characterize the contemporary world, including low birthrate, the reduction of violence, and globalization. Furthermore, cultural differences are considered with research targeted towards problems specific to a culture. Featuring a wide range of topics such as logic education, cognition, and knowledge management systems, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, researchers, social scientists, psychologists, and students.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799818136
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Studies on human thinking have focused on how humans solve a problem and have discussed how human thinking can be rational. A juxtaposition between psychology and sociology allows for a unique perspective of the influence on human thought and morality on society. Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society is an in-depth critical resource that provides comprehensive research on thinking and morality and its influence on societal norms as well as how people adapt themselves to the novel circumstances and phenomena that characterize the contemporary world, including low birthrate, the reduction of violence, and globalization. Furthermore, cultural differences are considered with research targeted towards problems specific to a culture. Featuring a wide range of topics such as logic education, cognition, and knowledge management systems, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, researchers, social scientists, psychologists, and students.
Teaching Controversial Issues
Author: Nel Noddings
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 080777488X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and across social/economic classes prepares students for participation in democracy. They offer specific, concrete strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The goal is to develop individuals who can examine their own beliefs, those of their own and other groups, and those of their nation, and can do so with respect and understanding for others values. Book Features: Underscores the necessity of moral commitment in the use of critical thinking. Offers assistance for handling controversial issues that many teachers find unsettling. Proposes a way for students and teachers to work together across the disciplines. “Brooks and Noddings offer a timely and inspirational guide for teaching critical thinking in American schools. With deep roots in American philosophy and traditions, this book inspires us to teach students to question authority while fostering meaningful conversations about the difficult issues confronting our nation. This book offers a recipe for nurturing the next generation of caring and critical democratic citizens.” —Andrew Fiala, professor, California State University, Fresno “Chock-full of contemporary and historical examples, this book offers educators myriad examples of how to help students learn to talk with and listen to others and to understand the fullness of our collective humanity.” —Suzanne M. Wilson, University of Connecticut
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 080777488X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and across social/economic classes prepares students for participation in democracy. They offer specific, concrete strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The goal is to develop individuals who can examine their own beliefs, those of their own and other groups, and those of their nation, and can do so with respect and understanding for others values. Book Features: Underscores the necessity of moral commitment in the use of critical thinking. Offers assistance for handling controversial issues that many teachers find unsettling. Proposes a way for students and teachers to work together across the disciplines. “Brooks and Noddings offer a timely and inspirational guide for teaching critical thinking in American schools. With deep roots in American philosophy and traditions, this book inspires us to teach students to question authority while fostering meaningful conversations about the difficult issues confronting our nation. This book offers a recipe for nurturing the next generation of caring and critical democratic citizens.” —Andrew Fiala, professor, California State University, Fresno “Chock-full of contemporary and historical examples, this book offers educators myriad examples of how to help students learn to talk with and listen to others and to understand the fullness of our collective humanity.” —Suzanne M. Wilson, University of Connecticut
Critical Thinking
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Sonoma State University, Center for Critical Thinking & Moral Critique
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Examines the theoretical, philosophical, educational & practical aspects. Special emphasis on education.
Publisher: Sonoma State University, Center for Critical Thinking & Moral Critique
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Examines the theoretical, philosophical, educational & practical aspects. Special emphasis on education.
Postconventional Moral Thinking
Author: James R. Rest
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135705615
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Although Lawrence Kohlberg provided major ideas for psychological research in morality for decades, today some critics regard his work as outmoded, beyond repair, and too faulty for anybody to take seriously. These critics suggest that research would advance more profitably by taking a different approach. Postconventional Moral Thinking acknowledges particular philosophical and psychological problems with Kohlberg's theory and methodology, and proposes a reformulation called "Neo-Kohlbergian." Hundreds of researchers have reported a large body of findings after having employed Kohlberg's theory and methods to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), therefore attesting to the relevance of his ideas. This book provides a coherent theoretical overview for hundreds of studies that have used the DIT. The authors propose reformulations in the underlying psychological and philosophical theories. This book pulls together the analysis of criticisms of a Kohlbergian approach, a rationale for DIT research, and new theoretical ideas and new research.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135705615
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Although Lawrence Kohlberg provided major ideas for psychological research in morality for decades, today some critics regard his work as outmoded, beyond repair, and too faulty for anybody to take seriously. These critics suggest that research would advance more profitably by taking a different approach. Postconventional Moral Thinking acknowledges particular philosophical and psychological problems with Kohlberg's theory and methodology, and proposes a reformulation called "Neo-Kohlbergian." Hundreds of researchers have reported a large body of findings after having employed Kohlberg's theory and methods to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), therefore attesting to the relevance of his ideas. This book provides a coherent theoretical overview for hundreds of studies that have used the DIT. The authors propose reformulations in the underlying psychological and philosophical theories. This book pulls together the analysis of criticisms of a Kohlbergian approach, a rationale for DIT research, and new theoretical ideas and new research.
Moral Education for Social Justice
Author: Larry Nucci
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807779717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The authors draw from their work with teachers and students to address issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students’ development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to critically address societal conventions, norms, and institutions. The authors provide a clear roadmap for differentiating moral education from religious beliefs and offer age-appropriate guidance for creating healthy school and classroom environments. Demonstrating how to engage students in critical thinking and community activism, the book includes proven-effective lessons that promote academic learning and moral growth for the early grades through adolescence. The text also incorporates recent work with social-emotional learning and restorative justice to nurture students’ ethical awareness and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. Book Features: Guidance to help teachers move from classroom moral discourse to engage students in community action. Age-specific lesson plans developed with classroom teachers for integration with regular academic curricula.Detailed overview of moral growth with examples of student reasoning.Connections between moral development and critical pedagogy.Connections between moral development and digital literacy.Connections among classroom management, school rules, restorative justice, and students’ social development.Insights drawn from research conducted within the Oakland Public School system.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807779717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The authors draw from their work with teachers and students to address issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students’ development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to critically address societal conventions, norms, and institutions. The authors provide a clear roadmap for differentiating moral education from religious beliefs and offer age-appropriate guidance for creating healthy school and classroom environments. Demonstrating how to engage students in critical thinking and community activism, the book includes proven-effective lessons that promote academic learning and moral growth for the early grades through adolescence. The text also incorporates recent work with social-emotional learning and restorative justice to nurture students’ ethical awareness and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. Book Features: Guidance to help teachers move from classroom moral discourse to engage students in community action. Age-specific lesson plans developed with classroom teachers for integration with regular academic curricula.Detailed overview of moral growth with examples of student reasoning.Connections between moral development and critical pedagogy.Connections between moral development and digital literacy.Connections among classroom management, school rules, restorative justice, and students’ social development.Insights drawn from research conducted within the Oakland Public School system.
Critical Thinking
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538139537
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent. Richard Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538139537
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent. Richard Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.
The New Critical Thinking
Author: Jack Lyons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134881819
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science. This highly innovative text is psychologically informed, both in its diagnosis of inferential errors, and in teaching students how to watch out for and work around their natural intellectual blind spots. It also incorporates insights from epistemology and philosophy of science that are indispensable for learning how to evaluate premises. The result is a hands-on primer for real world critical thinking. The authors bring over four combined decades of classroom experience and a fresh approach to the traditional challenges of a critical thinking course: effectively explaining the nature of validity, assessing deductive arguments, reconstructing, identifying and diagramming arguments, and causal and probabilistic inference. Additionally, they discuss in detail, important, frequently neglected topics, including testimony, the nature and credibility of science, rhetoric, and dialectical argumentation. Key Features and Benefits: Uses contemporary psychological explanations of, and remedies for, pervasive errors in belief formation. There is no other critical thinking text that generally applies this psychological approach. Assesses premises, notably premises based on the testimony of others, and evaluation of news and other information sources. No other critical thinking textbook gives detailed treatment of this crucial topic. Typically, they only provide a few remarks about when to accept expert opinion / argument from authority. Carefully explains the concept of validity, paying particular attention in distinguishing logical possibility from other species of possibility, and demonstrates how we may mistakenly judge invalid arguments as valid because of belief bias. Instead of assessing an argument’s validity using formal/mathematical methods (i.e., truth tables for propositional logic and Venn diagrams for categorical logic), provides one technique that is generally applicable: explicitly showing that it is impossible to make the conclusion false and the premises true together. For instructors who like the more formal approach, the text also includes standard treatments using truth tables and Venn diagrams. Uses frequency trees and the frequency approach to probability more generally, a simple method for understanding and evaluating quite complex probabilistic information Uses arguments maps, which have been shown to significantly improve students’ reasoning and argument evaluation
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134881819
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science. This highly innovative text is psychologically informed, both in its diagnosis of inferential errors, and in teaching students how to watch out for and work around their natural intellectual blind spots. It also incorporates insights from epistemology and philosophy of science that are indispensable for learning how to evaluate premises. The result is a hands-on primer for real world critical thinking. The authors bring over four combined decades of classroom experience and a fresh approach to the traditional challenges of a critical thinking course: effectively explaining the nature of validity, assessing deductive arguments, reconstructing, identifying and diagramming arguments, and causal and probabilistic inference. Additionally, they discuss in detail, important, frequently neglected topics, including testimony, the nature and credibility of science, rhetoric, and dialectical argumentation. Key Features and Benefits: Uses contemporary psychological explanations of, and remedies for, pervasive errors in belief formation. There is no other critical thinking text that generally applies this psychological approach. Assesses premises, notably premises based on the testimony of others, and evaluation of news and other information sources. No other critical thinking textbook gives detailed treatment of this crucial topic. Typically, they only provide a few remarks about when to accept expert opinion / argument from authority. Carefully explains the concept of validity, paying particular attention in distinguishing logical possibility from other species of possibility, and demonstrates how we may mistakenly judge invalid arguments as valid because of belief bias. Instead of assessing an argument’s validity using formal/mathematical methods (i.e., truth tables for propositional logic and Venn diagrams for categorical logic), provides one technique that is generally applicable: explicitly showing that it is impossible to make the conclusion false and the premises true together. For instructors who like the more formal approach, the text also includes standard treatments using truth tables and Venn diagrams. Uses frequency trees and the frequency approach to probability more generally, a simple method for understanding and evaluating quite complex probabilistic information Uses arguments maps, which have been shown to significantly improve students’ reasoning and argument evaluation
Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Hanno Sauer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131546747X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories understand moral thinking in terms of two separate domains: one deliberate and analytic, the other quick and instinctive. This book presents a new theory of the philosophy and cognitive science of moral judgment. Hanno Sauer develops and defends an account of "triple-process" moral psychology, arguing that moral thinking and reasoning are only insufficiently understood when described in terms of a quick but intuitive and a slow but rational type of cognition. This approach severely underestimates the importance and impact of dispositions to initiate and engage in critical thinking – the cognitive resource in charge of counteracting my-side bias, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, and breakdowns of self-control. Moral cognition is based, not on emotion and reason, but on an integrated network of intuitive, algorithmic and reflective thinking. Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131546747X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories understand moral thinking in terms of two separate domains: one deliberate and analytic, the other quick and instinctive. This book presents a new theory of the philosophy and cognitive science of moral judgment. Hanno Sauer develops and defends an account of "triple-process" moral psychology, arguing that moral thinking and reasoning are only insufficiently understood when described in terms of a quick but intuitive and a slow but rational type of cognition. This approach severely underestimates the importance and impact of dispositions to initiate and engage in critical thinking – the cognitive resource in charge of counteracting my-side bias, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, and breakdowns of self-control. Moral cognition is based, not on emotion and reason, but on an integrated network of intuitive, algorithmic and reflective thinking. Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.