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Critical condition : replacing critical thinking with creativity / Patrick Finn.

by Finn, Patrick, 1966-

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]

Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher).

Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher).

Creative thinking.

Critical thinking.

Thought and thinking.

9781771121576 (pbk.)

1771121572 (pbk.)

xiv, 131 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, 'Critical Condition' questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a critical thinker. The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical "attack" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. Patrick Finn is an associate professor in The School for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary"--Provided by publisher.

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