Teaching critical thinking

The kind of critical thinking that is espoused by Howard Gabennesch in his article "Critical Thinking" (March/April 2006) is taught, at least in our textbook, Thinking Socratically (Prentice Hall). Harvey Lape and I share the same conception of critical thinking that Gabennesch describes and have developed our text as a way to teach critical thinking as open, rational dialogue. Unfortunately, this puts us out of the mainstream of critical thinking textbooks, but we are out there.

Sharon Schwarze

Department of Philosophy

Cabrini College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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