ABSTRACT
In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In Rationality Redeemed?, a collection of essays written since that time, he develops this view, responds to major criticisms raised against it, and engages those critics in dialogue. In developing his ideas and responding to critics, Siegel addresses main currents in contemporary thought, including feminism, postmodernism and multiculturalism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|88 pages
Development and Defense
part Two|86 pages
Dialogue
chapter Chapter 9|12 pages
Gimme That Old-Time Enlightenment Metanarrative
Radical Pedagogies (and Politics) Require Old-Fashioned Epistemology (and Moral Theory)
chapter |4 pages
Why Care (About Epistemology, Justification, Rationality, Etc.)?
A Brief Metaphilosophical Excursus