First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notionsof education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles and purposes and to evaluate them in the light of relevant reasons. Examining a broad range of issues - from computers in school to math education, from metaphor to morality - these essays are unified by Scheffler's conviction of the primacy of critical thought in education.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-58153-0
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 190
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés