Philosophical content: Indispensable and enhancing for the teaching and learning of philosophy
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Philosophical content, Philosophy teaching, Philosophy learning, Critical thinking
Abstract
My goal in this essay is to show that the acquisition of philosophical content is not only necessary but decisive for the development, application, and refinement of complex philosophical skills such as critical doubt, deep and original thought, as well as the practice of philosophy in the personal and public sphere. In recent decades, the philosophical pedagogy that conceives of the student as a mere passive container of information has been strongly questioned, instead of promoting critical doubt, the development of a vital philosophical attitude, and the practice of philosophy in the personal and social realm. However, I argue that a more careful analysis of the relevance of philosophical content shows not only its indispensability but its role in the development and refinement of those skills that even critics recognize as distinctive of philosophy and philosophizing.
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Rogelio Miranda Vilchis, Institute of Philosophical Research (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
He holds a BA in Philosophy and a MA in Humanities from the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Iztapalapa. He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2019). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Research (IIFS) at UNAM.