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

The Challenges for Higher Education

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

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

The Challenges for Higher Education

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978755109
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Theory & Practice

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Anti-intellectualism: Contributing Factors and Societal Effects
  6. Intellect and The Paradox of American Attitudes
  7. Hofstadter
  8. Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-intellectualism
  9. The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their Work
  10. Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public Intellectual
  11. Post-Truth, Rationality, and False Beliefs
  12. A Post-Truth World and Valuing Truth
  13. Rational Thinking
  14. The Formation and Correction of False Beliefs
  15. Personal Attributes Constituting a Rational Mindset
  16. Personal Epistemology
  17. Personality Traits, Epistemic Dispositions, and Virtues
  18. Identity Formation
  19. The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education
  20. Restoring our Shared Commitment to Rationalism
  21. Promoting the Development of a Rational Mindset and a Rationalist Identity
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. About the Author

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