John Lambie, Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
xiii, 239 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index
How is human progress possible? -- Introducing critical open-mindedness -- Case study 1: open and closed minds -- Erasmus versus Luther -- Previous approaches to open-mindedness : from Socrates to the present -- Summary of the new model of critical open-mindedness -- Effects of open-mindedness on decision making, morality, and well-being -- Case study II : morality ; the levellers and religious toleration -- Case study III : science -- Galileo and critical perspective shifting -- History of open and closed societies -- Psychological and biological roots of open-mindedness -- Case study IV : sound self-awareness -- Joseph Stalin versus Jane Austen -- Defending and cultivating critical open-mindedness -- Open-mindedness, science, and religion