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- Title
IS CRITICAL THINKING EPISTEMICALLY RESPONSIBLE?
- Authors
Huemer, Michael
- Abstract
There are at least three strategies we might take in approaching controversial issues: (i) we might accept the conclusions of experts on their authority, (ii) we might evaluate the relevant evidence and arguments for ourselves, or (iii) we might give up on finding the answers. Students of “critical thinking” are regularly advised to follow strategy (ii). But strategies (i) and (iii) are usually superior to (ii), from the standpoint of the goal of gaining true beliefs and avoiding false ones.
- Subjects
CRITICAL thinking; VIRTUE epistemology; THEORY of knowledge; THOUGHT &; thinking; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Metaphilosophy, 2005, Vol 36, Issue 4, p522
- ISSN
0026-1068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9973.2005.00388.x