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Anti-Intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era
The Challenges for Higher Education
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2022
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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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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5332-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5333-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
316
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Intellect and The Paradox of American Attitudes No access
Hofstadter No access
Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-intellectualism No access
The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their Work No access
Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public Intellectual No access
A Post-Truth World and Valuing Truth No access
Rational Thinking No access
The Formation and Correction of False Beliefs No access
Personal Epistemology No access
Personality Traits, Epistemic Dispositions, and Virtues No access
Identity Formation No access
Restoring our Shared Commitment to Rationalism No access
Promoting the Development of a Rational Mindset and a Rationalist Identity No access
