Not by Skill Alone: The Centrality of Character to Critical Thinking

Authors

  • Harvey Siegel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v15i3.2484

Keywords:

critical thinking, character, skill, evidence, justification

Abstract

Connie Missimer (1990) challenges what she calls the Character View, according to which critical thinking involves both skill and character, and argues for a rival conception-the Skill View-according to which critical thinking is a matter of skill alone. In this paper I criticize the Skill View and defend the Character View from Missimer's critical arguments.

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Published

1993-01-01

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (1993)

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