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In excess of epistemology : Siegel, Taylor, Heidegger and the conditions of thought
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Williams, Emma (2015) In excess of epistemology : Siegel, Taylor, Heidegger and the conditions of thought. Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 49 (Number 1). pp. 142-160. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12103 ISSN 0309-8249.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12103
Abstract
Harvey Siegel's epistemologically-informed conception of critical thinking is one of the most influential accounts of critical thinking around today. In this article, I seek to open up an account of critical thinking that goes beyond the one defended by Siegel. I do this by re-reading an opposing view, which Siegel himself rejects as leaving epistemology (and, by implication, his epistemological account of critical thinking) ‘pretty much as it is’. This is the view proposed by Charles Taylor in his paper ‘Overcoming Epistemology’. Crucially, my aim here is not to defend Taylor's challenge to epistemology per se, but rather to demonstrate how, through its appeal to certain key tropes within Heideggerian philosophy, Taylor's paper opens us towards a radically different conception of thinking and the human being who thinks. Indeed, as will be argued, it is through this that Taylor and Heidegger come to offer us the resources for re-thinking the nature of critical thinking—in a way that exceeds the epistemological, and does more justice to receptive and responsible conditions of human thought.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Siegel, Harvey, 1952-, Taylor, Charles, 1931-, Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, Education--Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory of, Critical thinking, Thought and thinking | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Philosophy of Education | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0309-8249 | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 49 | ||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 142-160 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9752.12103 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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