Thinking Through Questions: A Concise Invitation to Critical, Expansive, and Philosophical Inquiry

by Anthony Weston, Stephen Bloch-Schulman

Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions. Animated by wide-ranging and engaging exercises and examples, the book helps students deepen their understanding of how questions work and what questions do, and builds the skills needed to ask better questions. Cowritten by two of today's leading philosopher-teachers, Thinking Through Questions is specifically designed to complement, connect, and motivate today’s standard curricula, especially for classes in critical thinking, philosophical questioning, and creative problem- solving (called here "expansive questioning"). Offering students a wide and appreciative look at questions and questioning, this small book will also appeal to faculty and students across the in college writing courses, creativity workshops, education schools, introductions to college thinking, design thinking projects, and humanities and thinking classes. Open-ended, creative, and critically self-possessed thinking is its constant theme—what field doesn’t need more of that?

Genres: Philosophy, Education

160 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2020

Reviews

[J. R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been using Weston and Morrow's excellent text for my critical thinking course, but I am now considering using this excellent discussion on questions to form the course around. Like much of Weston's work, Thinking Through Questions is accessible and easy-to-implement as a course support.