Critical Thinking as Applied Epistemology
Realocando o pensamento crítico no panorama filosófico
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Applied Epistemology, Critical Thinking, Informal LogicAbstract
This is a portuguese translation of the article Critical Thinking as Applied Epistemology by epistemologist Mark E. Battersby. It is one of the founding articles of the epistemologically motivated approach to critical thinking. It made contributions that were unprecedented at the time and are necessary today, encouraging not only the foundation of subdisciplines of epistemology, but above all correctly encouraging that Critical Thinking is not just about mere instruction and pedagogical-cognitive correction, but consists of a project to apply epistemological norms to our everyday epistemic activities, whose correct name would be Applied Epistemology. He begins by arguing by analogy, explaining how Moral Philosophy has been reconfigured in the last century in terms of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics, showing that the same has happened with Epistemology in recent decades. Finally, it reveals the epistemology underlying theories of critical thinking to argue that they consist of a significant endeavour to offer answers to common questions about what we should believe and how we should believe what we believe.
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