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Overview

Harvey Siegel is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences with a focus on Education, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as subfields.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics in education and critical thinking development, including the philosophy of education and approaches to teaching. Notable papers by Siegel include:

  • Open-mindedness, Critical Thinking, and Indoctrination: Homage to William Hare (2020, Paideusis)
  • Arguing with Arguments (2024, Informal Logic)
  • La filosofía de la educación y la tiranía de la práctica (2023, Revista Internacional de Teoría e Investigación Educativa)
  • Rational Thinking and Intellectually Virtuous Thinking: Identical, Extensionally Equivalent, or Substantively Different? (2023, Informal Logic)
  • Arguing About Arguing with Arguments (2025, Informal Logic)

Siegel frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Informal Logic
  • Paideusis
  • Revista Internacional de Teoría e Investigación Educativa
  • Philosophical Inquiry in Education
  • Topoi

Their main research topics include:

  • Religious Education and Schools
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
  • Philosophy and Education Pedagogy
  • Educational theories and practices
  • Education and Teacher Training
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Siegel has collaborated with other researchers, including frequent co-authorship with John Biro.

Best Publications

  • Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education

    Harvey Siegel

  • Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism

    Harvey Siegel

  • Rationality Redeemed?: Further Dialogues on an Educational Ideal

    Harvey Siegel

  • Critical Thinking as an Educational Ideal

    Harvey Siegel

  • Knowing, Believing, and Understanding: What Goals for Science Education?

    Mike U. Smith;Harvey Siegel

  • The rationality of science, critical thinking, and science education

    Harvey Siegel

  • Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much Ado About Nothing Much?:

    Harvey Siegel

  • Justification, Discovery and the Naturalizing of Epistemology

    Harvey Siegel

  • Multiculturalism, universalism, and science education: In search of common ground

    Harvey Siegel

  • Epistemic Normativity, Argumentation, and Fallacies

    Harvey Siegel;John Biro

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education

    Harvey Siegel

  • The Generalizability of Critical Thinking

    Harvey Siegel

  • Foundational issues in evolution education

    Mike U. Smith;Harvey Siegel;Joseph D. McInerney

  • In Defense of the Objective Epistemic Approach to Argumentation

    John Biro;Harvey Siegel

  • Education's Epistemology: Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking

    Harvey Siegel

  • Why Should Educators Care about Argumentation

    Harvey Siegel

  • KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH AND EDUCATION

    Harvey Siegel

  • What Is the Question Concerning the Rationality of Science

    Harvey Siegel

  • WHAT (GOOD) ARE THINKING DISPOSITIONS

    Harvey Siegel

  • Educating Reason: Critical Thinking, Informal logic, and the Philosophy of Education. Part Two: Philosophical Questions Underlying Education for Critical Thinking

    Harvey Siegel

  • Knowledge and Its Place in Nature

    Harvey Siegel

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