Libri ad Nauseam: The Critical Thinking Textbook Glut
Libri ad Nauseam: The Critical Thinking Textbook Glut
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Libri ad Nauseam：批判性思维教科书过剩
DOI：
10.7202/1071573ar
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Benjamin Hamby
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作者：
Benjamin Hamby
批判性思维教师面临着铺天盖地的课本可供选择。这些文本中的许多并没有反映出对当前批判性思维和非形式逻辑方面的学术研究的认识。我认为，教师只应采用反映对该主题的合理理论理解的教材，承认批判性思维倾向的核心作用，为谬误和推理的教学提供更微妙的方法，强调辩证法和论点修改，专注于对真实论点的分析和评价，并拓宽批判性思维的范围，超越论点分析和评价。为了在这方面支持教师，我批评了一本流行的第六版教科书，它不符合这些标准中的许多标准，《曼森与布莱克》(2012)，而我发现一本新教科书确实在这些方面取得了成功，《贝林与巴特斯比》(2010)。
Critical thinking instructors are faced with an overwhelming number of textbooks to choose from for their courses. Many of these texts do not reflect an awareness of current scholarship in critical thinking and informal logic. I argue that instructors should only adopt textbooks that reflect a sound theoretical understanding of the topic by acknowledging the central role of critical thinking dispositions, offering a more nuanced approach to the teaching of fallacies and of inference, stressing dialectic and argument revision, focusing on the analysis and evaluation of real arguments, and broadening the scope of critical thinking beyond argument analysis and evaluation. To support instructors in this regard, I critique one popular textbook now in its sixth edition that does not satisfy many of these criteria, Munson and Black (2012), and applaud one new textbook that I find does succeed on many of these fronts, Bailin and Battersby (2010).