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Title

How to be critically open-minded : a psychological and historical analysis / John Lambie.

Author

Lambie, John

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• ©2014

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Description

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Ever wondered how to be open-minded without losing your critical edge? In this fascinating and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see the other person's point of view while remaining critical : in other words how to be "critically open-minded". In a wide ranging and entertaining account that covers a diverse array of topics : including the psychology of rationality, the novels of Jane Austen, the critical attitude of Galileo, the politics of the Levellers, and the parables of Jesus : Lambie explores both the history and psychology of critical open-mindedness, and explains how to cultivate it. Along the way he finds open and closed mindedness in many surprising and unexpected places. Combining history and psychology, Lambie examines the social and psychological underpinnings of critical open-mindedness and explores its implications for scientific and moral progress.

Alternative Title

How to be critically open-minded : a psychological & historical analysis

Subject

• Criticism, Personal
• Critical thinking
• Thinking
• Cognition & cognitive psychology
• Ethics & moral philosophy
• PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
• Psychology
• SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
• Social & political philosophy
• Social, group or collective psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

How is human progress possible? -- Introducing critical open-mindedness -- Case study 1: open and closed minds -- Erasmus versus Luther -- Previous approaches to open-mindedness : from Socrates to the present -- Summary of the new model of critical open-mindedness --Effects of open-mindedness on decision making, morality, and well-being -- Case study II : morality ; the levellers and religious toleration -- Case study III : science -- Galileo and critical perspective shifting -- History of open and closed societies -- Psychological and biological roots of open-mindedness -- Case study IV : sound self-awareness -- Joseph Stalin versus Jane Austen -- Defending and cultivating critical open-mindedness -- Open-mindedness, science, and religion.

ISBN

• 9781137301048 (hbk.)
• 113730104X (hbk.)

OCLC

892506201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library