Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
critical thinking, epistemic virtues, motivational virtues, regulatory virtues, transfer problem
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
In this paper we argue that while a full-blown virtue-theoretical account of argumentation is implausible, there is scope for augmenting a conventional account of argument by taking a character-oriented turn. We then discuss the characteristics of the good epistemic citizen, and consider approaches to nurturing these characteristics in critical thinking students, in the hope of addressing the problem of lack of transfer of critical thinking skills to the world outside the classroom.
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Donald Hatcher, Commentary on: Tracy Bowell and Justine Kingsbury's "Critical thinking and the argumentational and epistemic virtues"
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In this paper we argue that while a full-blown virtue-theoretical account of argumentation is implausible, there is scope for augmenting a conventional account of argument by taking a character-oriented turn. We then discuss the characteristics of the good epistemic citizen, and consider approaches to nurturing these characteristics in critical thinking students, in the hope of addressing the problem of lack of transfer of critical thinking skills to the world outside the classroom.
