Intellectual Virtue in Critical Thinking and Its Instruction

Introduction to a Symposium

Authors

  • Matt Ferkany Michigan State University
  • Matt McKeon Michigan State University
  • David Godden Michigan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v43i2.8012

Abstract

How is intellectual virtue related to critical thinking? Can one be a critical thinker without exercising intellectual virtue? Can one be intellectually virtuous without thereby being a critical thinker?  How should our answers to these questions inform the instruction of critical thinking? These were the questions informing the 2023 Charles McCracken endowed lectureships given at Michigan State University by Professors Harvey Siegel and Jason Baehr. This brief commentary introduces their respective papers, which appear in the current issue of Informal Logic.

References

Siegel, Harvey. 1988. Educating reason: Rationality, critical thinking, and education. London: Routledge.

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Published

2023-06-15

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Vol. 43 No. 2 (2023)

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