Harvey Siegel: 4 books

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s...

In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In ***Rationality Redeemed?***, a collection of essays written since that time, he develops this view, responds to major criticisms raised against it, and engages those...

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking;...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.