Not by Skill Alone: The Centrality of Character to Critical Thinking

Informal Logic 15 (3) (1993)
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Connie Missimer (1990) challenges what she calls the Character View, according to which critical thinking involves both skill and character, and argues for a rival conception-the Skill View-according to which critical thinking is a matter of skill alone. In this paper I criticize the Skill View and defend the Character View from Missimer's critical arguments

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