Rationality and its application in the idea of Critical Thinking

Abstract

This study critically investigates the basic features of the conception of rationality found in

the writings of critical thinking theorists and in so doing finds some significant conceptual

elements of rationality in the idea of critical thinking that may help extend our views of

rationality as an educational concept. The study will primarily be focused, firstly, on the

conceptual connections between the ideas of rationality and critical thinking and, secondly,

on Harvey Siegel's universalist notion of rationality as the criterion of critical thinking.