{"product_id":"anti-intellectualism-to-anti-rationalism-to-post-truth-era-the-challenges-for-higher-education-9781793653321","title":"Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective commitment to rationality. A post-truth world, however, is not an immutable condition and cannot be accepted as the new norm. The author argues that American higher education take responsibility for combating anti-rationalism by promoting the development of student's personal attributes that constitute a rational mind-set and rationalist identity, such that they hold themselves accountable for commitments to seeking truth and the value of critical thought and reasoned discourse as defining element of their way of being in the world. Scholarship exists across many disciplines regarding anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American society and the personal attributes that together constitute a rational mind-set, including an evaluativist personal epistemology, open-mindedness and conscientiousness, and a rationalist identity. The author brings the perspective of a psychologist to the analysis and synthesis of this scholarship and the implications for educational practices that are effective in promoting the development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Anti-Intellectualism: Contributing Factors and Societal Effects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: Intellect and the Paradox of American Attitudes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-Intellectualism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public Intellectual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Post-Truth, Rationality, and False Beliefs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: A Post-truth World and Valuing Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Rational Thinking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: The Formation and Correction of False Beliefs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Personal Attributes Constituting a Rational Mind-Set\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Personal Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Personality Traits and Epistemic Dispositions and Virtues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Identity Formation and the Narrative Process of Self-Authorship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Restoring our Shared Commitment to Rationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Promoting the Development of a Rational Mind-Set and a Rationalist Identity\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042698101079,"sku":"9781793653321","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anti-intellectualism-to-anti-rationalism-to-post-truth-era-the-challenges-for-higher-education-9781793653321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}