Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era

The Challenges for Higher Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvRobert J. Thompson Jr.,Robert J. Thompson Jr,Robert J. Thompson

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Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective commitment to rationality. A post-truth world, however, is not an immutable condition and cannot be accepted as the new norm. The author argues that American higher education take responsibility for combating anti-rationalism by promoting the development of student's personal attributes that constitute a rational mind-set and rationalist identity, such that they hold themselves accountable for commitments to seeking truth and the value of critical thought and reasoned discourse as defining element of their way of being in the world. Scholarship exists across many disciplines regarding anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American society and the personal attributes that together constitute a rational mind-set, including an evaluativist personal epistemology, open-mindedness and conscientiousness, and a rationalist identity. The author brings the perspective of a psychologist to the analysis and synthesis of this scholarship and the implications for educational practices that are effective in promoting the development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-12
Mått151 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793653345

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Anti-Intellectualism: Contributing Factors and Societal EffectsChapter 1: Introduction: Intellect and the Paradox of American AttitudesChapter 2: Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeChapter 3: Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-IntellectualismChapter 4: The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their WorkChapter 5: Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public IntellectualPart II: Post-Truth, Rationality, and False BeliefsChapter 6: A Post-truth World and Valuing TruthChapter 7: Rational ThinkingChapter 8: The Formation and Correction of False BeliefsPart III: Personal Attributes Constituting a Rational Mind-SetChapter 9: Personal EpistemologyChapter 10: Personality Traits and Epistemic Dispositions and VirtuesChapter 11: Identity Formation and the Narrative Process of Self-AuthorshipPart IV: The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher EducationChapter 12: Restoring our Shared Commitment to Rationali

Thompson outlines how American culture has abandoned reason, evidence, and critical thought and instead embraced emotion and personal belief as the source of knowledge. In a text that points to questions such as "Is truth irrelevant? If so, how did we get to this point?" the author successfully details the dynamics underlying that vague and complex construct called truth…. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.