Monday, September 17, 2018

Eric Schliesser — On Teaching How to Ask Philosophical Questions (of Complicated Texts)


Only marginally related but important, I think, in developing a curious approach that is also rigorous in any area using the Socratic method.

Teachers, writers, and researchers know from experience that the ability to formulate good questions is the secret to success. Eric Schliesser suggests teaching that skill to philosophy students and he propose a way to do this. 

While philosophy is about creative problem-solving and critical thinking, I would say that creative problem-solving and critical thinking is fundamental to most other endeavors and so learning the skills of creative problem-solving and critical thinking has general application as well.

Incidentally, Eric Schliesser often blogs on political theory and philosophy of economics, and I've linked to some of his posts previously.

Digressions&Impressions
On Teaching How to Ask Philosophical Questions (of Complicated Texts)
Eric Schliesser | Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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