This paper argues that the concept of ‘critical thinking’ formulated by the Thinkers of the Critical Thinking Movement contains a gap that greatly undermines its enterprise: the movement asserts that a critical thinker develops a direct and transparent self-knowledge, which would imply quasi-infallibility. In the history of philosophy some thinkers have defended this possibility of direct and infallible self-knowledge, for example René Descartes and more recently Donald Davidson. However, such knowledge seems to have some more or less clear limits that are not taken into account by the thinkers of the MPC to formulate their notion of critical thinking and by this their philosophical and pedagogical project may be unfounded.
Prieto Galindo, F. (2018). Critical thinking and self-knowledge. Revista De Filosofía, 74, pp. 173–191. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/51889
