Fostering Inquiry, Reasoning and Critical Thinking

J. Michael Spector

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Pages:: 229–243

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416802_023

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Seeking Understanding

The Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004416802

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 22 Nov 2019

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Front Matter

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Making of This Book and Its Roots in Creative Collaboration

Intermezzi: Thoughts Inspired by the Thoughts of Others

Chapter 1 The Quest to Know

Intermezzo 1 The Missing Piece

Chapter 2 Context Is Everything and Everything Has Meaning

Intermezzo 2 Life Starts Long before Its Beginning

Chapter 3 From Preconception to Preschool

Intermezzo 3 Touching the Encountered World

Chapter 4 Saga of a Small Science Center

Intermezzo 4 The Worthwhile Struggle to Overcome Inertia

Chapter 5 Expanding the Dialogue

Intermezzo 5 When the Sky Is Not the Limit, It Could Be the Beginning

Chapter 6 The Inspiring Universe

Intermezzo 6 Never Ever without Passion

Chapter 7 Playing the Role of Facilitator

Intermezzo 7 On Dialogue

Chapter 8 How You Talk Is How You Think; How You Think Is How You Understand

Intermezzo 8 Facing Life’s Biggest Questions

Chapter 9 Seeking to Know and Understand the Self

Intermezzo 9 A Sense of Beauty

Chapter 10 Beauty in Science, Science in Beauty

Intermezzo 10 Making the Unfamiliar Familiar

Chapter 11 Science Popularizer Is the Most Important Job That Does Not Yet Exist

Intermezzo 11 It’s Not Just a Right; It’s an Obligation to the Future

Chapter 12 Fostering Inquiry, Reasoning and Critical Thinking

Intermezzo 12 How Long Can We Still Wait and Who Takes Responsibility?

Chapter 13 The Shifting Mind of Economics

Intermezzo 13 Looking Back with a View to Looking Forward

Chapter 14 Invent the Future

Intermezzo 14 Culture of Differences vs. Difference of Cultures

Chapter 15 Seeking to Find out Why Things Happen

Intermezzo 15 Reverence for Life, Whatever Its Manifestations

Chapter 16 Nontraditional Pathways to the Development of a Scientific Mind

Intermezzo 16 Homo Ludens

Chapter 17 Education in a Complex World

Intermezzo 17 Where Science Ends

Chapter 18 HIV, Medical Science and the Call to Greater Humanness

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