Critical Thinking, Postmodernism, and Rational Evaluation

Authors

  • Donald L. Hatcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v16i3.2457

Keywords:

Contextualism, critical thinking, epistemology, postmodernism, rationality, relativism, Rorty

Abstract

In this paper, after showing how the postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality apply to critical thinking, I argue that a critical discussion on any subject must assume specific principles of rationality. I then show how these principles can be used to critique and reject postmodern claims about the contextual nature of rationality.

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Published

1994-01-01

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (1994)

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