From Insult and Injury to Open Critical Thinking

Authors

John Wilson

Publication Date

1995-12-01

Abstract

In this article the author outlines the conflict existing between the western heritage of open critical thinking and traditional Thai values. It is maintained that the issue of voicing critical thinking in Thai universities is not principally an intellectual dilemma, but rather a social one. He proposes that this problem is not insoluble and that revising local concepts of "argument" and other expository speech acts in the academic language game will promise an intellectually powerful yet socially harmonious outcome. He formulates an adoptable principle of intellectual integrity with maxims for academic debate.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.25.1.5

First Page

43

Last Page

53

Recommended Citation

Wilson, John (1995) "From Insult and Injury to Open Critical Thinking," PASAA: Vol. 25: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.25.1.5
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol25/iss1/5