Book Chapter10.4324/9781410610515-23
When Is Good Thinking
David N. Perkins,Ron Ritchhart +1 more
- 13 Jul 2004
- pp 351-384
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TL;DR: Baron, 1985; Basseches, 1984; Case, 1992; Elgin, 1996; Langer, 1989; Paul, 1990; Toulmin, 1958; and Wertheimer's (1945) formulation of productive thinking all set forth normative conceptions of various kinds of thinking.
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Abstract: What is good thinking? To ask this is to pose one of the most venerable questions of scholarship. Aristotle’s (350 B. C. E.) analysis of syllogisms, Bacon’s
(1620/1878) account of scientific inquiry, Kant’s (1785/1994) categorical imperative, Von Neumann and Morgenstern’s (1944) exposition of game theory, Inhelder and Piaget’s (1958) notion of formal operational thinking,
Wertheimer’s (1945) formulation of productive thinking all set forth normative conceptions of various kinds of thinking. Contemporary work expands,
ramifies, and refines the analysis into many particular kinds of thinking (e.g.
Baron, 1985; Basseches, 1984; Case, 1992; Elgin, 1996; Langer, 1989; Paul,
1990; Toulmin, 1958).
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