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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: an unskilled inquiry into Quinn and McPeck
Author(s) -
GARDNER PETER,
JOHNSON STEVE
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1996.tb00412.x
Subject(s) - critical thinking , subject (documents) , curriculum , epistemology , sociology , pedagogy , philosophy , computer science , library science
Victor Quinn advocates teaching critical thinking as a curriculum subject. He has accused Professor John E. McPeck, a vehement critic of such proposals, not only of being wrong but also of being in need of such a critical thinking course himself. In this paper we examine the five supposed critical thinking weaknesses of which McPeck is accused and consider what Quinn's arguments tell us about critical thinking, its skills, its priorities and its claims to subject status.