Thinking Through Questions: A Concise Invitation to Critical, Expansive, and Philosophical Inquiry - Softcover

Weston, Anthony; Bloch-Schulman, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624668585 ISBN 13: 9781624668586

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2020

Synopsis

Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions. Animated by wide-ranging and engaging exercises and examples, the book helps students deepen their understanding of how questions work and what questions do, and builds the skills needed to ask better questions. Cowritten by two of today's leading philosopher-teachers, Thinking Through Questions is specifically designed to complement, connect, and motivate today’s standard curricula, especially for classes in critical thinking, philosophical questioning, and creative problem- solving (called here "expansive questioning"). Offering students a wide and appreciative look at questions and questioning, this small book will also appeal to faculty and students across the disciplines: in college writing courses, creativity workshops, education schools, introductions to college thinking, design thinking projects, and humanities and thinking classes. Open-ended, creative, and critically self-possessed thinking is its constant theme—what field doesn’t need more of that?

About this title

About the Author

Anthony Weston and Stephen Bloch-Schulman think through questions as members of the philosophy department at Elon University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1624668585
• ISBN 13: 9781624668586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160