Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	Theories of Critical Reasoning and Education
	The Problem of Skills versus Content
1	Conflicting Views on Teaching Critical Reasoning	5
	Theories That Emphasize Content
2	Teaching Critical Reasoning through the Disciplines: Content versus Process	31
3	Cultural Literacy and Critical Literacy	51
	Theories That Emphasize Skills
4	Critical Reasoning and Informal Logic	69
5	Education and the Fostering of Rationality	89
6	Creativity, Critical Reasoning, and the Problem of Content-Oriented Education	113
	Beyond Skills and Content
7	Teaching Critical Reasoning in the Strong Sense: Getting Behind World Views	135
8	The Interpretative Focus: A Prerequisite for Critical Reasoning	157
Pt. II	Problems for Theory of Critical Reasoning
	The Problem of Methodology
9	Taking Cover in Coverage: Critical Reasoning and the Conflict of Theories	189
10	Whose Reason? Which Canon? Critical Reasoning and Conflicting Ideas of Rationality	207
	The Problem of History
11	Postmodernism and the Possibility of Critical Reasoning	231
12	Critical Reasoning and History	251
	The Problem of the Unity of Source for Critical Reasoning
13	Critical Reasoning and the Second Power of Questions: Towards First Questions and First Philosophy	299
14	Theology and Critical Reasoning: Ignatius' Understanding of the Jesuit University	333
	The Problem of Values
15	Evaluation and Critical Reasoning: Logic's Last Frontier?	353
	Biographical Sketches of Contributors	407
	Index	413