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The post-truth world threatens our collective commitment to rationality but must not become the norm. Synthesis of the scholarship on anti-intellectualism and personal attributes informs educational practices to promote development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Anti-Intellectualism: Contributing Factors and Societal Effects
Chapter 1: Introduction: Intellect and the Paradox of American Attitudes
Chapter 2: Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Chapter 3: Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-Intellectualism
Chapter 4: The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their Work
Chapter 5: Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public Intellectual
Part II: Post-Truth, Rationality, and False Beliefs
Chapter 6: A Post-truth World and Valuing Truth
Chapter 7: Rational Thinking
Chapter 8: The Formation and Correction of False Beliefs
Part III: Personal Attributes Constituting a Rational Mind-Set
Chapter 9: Personal Epistemology
Chapter 10: Personality Traits and Epistemic Dispositions and Virtues
Chapter 11: Identity Formation and the Narrative Process of Self-Authorship
Part IV: The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education
Chapter 12: Restoring our Shared Commitment to Rationalism
Chapter 13: Promoting the Development of a Rational Mind-Set and a Rationalist Identity
About the author
By Robert J. Thompson Jr.
