Toward A Definition of Critical Inquiry
Jeffrey Scheuer
Critical Inquiry Program, University of South Carolina Aiken.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijirme.2024.v3i2n02
References:
1) Renford Bambrough, “Aristotle on Justice: A Paradigm of Philosophy,” p. 165.2) Philosophy continues to inform other disciplines in various ways. As Subrena E. Smith observes [https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science- education]: “Albert Einstein’s philosophical thought experiments made Cassini possible. Aristotle’s logic is the basis for computer science, which gave us laptops and smartphones. And philosophers’ work on the mind-body problem set the stage for the emergence of neuropsychology and therefore brain-imaging technology… [and] science brims with important conceptual, methodological and ethical issues that philosophers are uniquely situated to address…”
3) Even the knowledge necessary for, e.g., preliterate hunter-gatherers to survive involves cognitive abstraction. Identifying prey, predators, and survival strategies requires selection and organization of memories, skills, and strategies based on relational thinking about objects, events, and causality.