Contents*

INTRODUCTION

I. FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS

1. Critical Thinking as Applied Epistemology: Relocating Critical Thinking in the Philosophical Landscape
Mark Battersby

2. Argumentation as Inquiry
Sharon Bailin

3. The Problem with Percy: Epistemology, Understanding, and Critical Thinking
Sharon Bailin

4. Reason Appreciation

II. THE APPROACH

5. Inquiry: A Dialectical Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking

III. CONDUCTIVE REASONING

6. Guidelines for Reaching a Reasoned Judgment

7. Conductive Argumentation, Degrees of Confidence, and the Communication of Uncertainty

IV. ASPECTS OF THE APPROACH

8. Assessing Expert Claims: Critical Thinking and the Appeal to Authority
Mark Battersby

9. Fallacy Identification in a Dialectical Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking

10. Critical Inquiry: Considering the Context

11. Critical Thinking and Cognitive Biases

12. DAMed If You Do; DAMed If You Don’t: Cohen’s “Missed Opportunities”

V. APPLICATION OF THE APPROACH

13. Beyond the Boundaries: The Epistemological Significance of Differing Cultural Perspectives

14. Teaching Critical Inquiry in Science: The Role of Dialectical Context in Scientific Reasoning

15. Applied Epistemology and Argumentation in Epidemiology
Mark Battersby

VI. TEACHING

16. The Competent Layperson: Re-envisioning the Ideal of the Educated Person
Mark Battersby

17. Critical Thinking as Inquiry in Higher Education

18. Fostering the Virtues of Inquiry

VII. CRITICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITY

19. Is Argument for Conservatives? or Where Do Sparkling New Ideas Come From?
Sharon Bailin

VIII. NEW DIRECTIONS

20. Enhancing Rationality: Heuristics, Biases, and The Critical Thinking Project
Mark Battersby

*All papers are jointly authored unless otherwise indicated.