Paul's Critical Thinking

Abstract

This is a critical review of Richard Paul's book "Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly Changing World". The book collects most of Paul's previously published papers on critical thinking. The review considers Paul's notion of strong' critical thinking, his views on Socratic questioning, on dialectical thinking, on strategies for teaching critical thinking and on other theoretical issues (like McPeck's criticisms). The review concludes that the book is an important contribution to the development of critical thinking.