How to be Critically Open-Minded — A Psychological and Historical Analysis

1. How Is Human Progress Possible?
John Lambie

Part I. Critical Open-Mindedness: What Is It?

2. Introducing Critical Open-Mindedness
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3. Case Study 1: Open and Closed Minds — Erasmus Versus Luther
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4. Previous Approaches to Open-Mindedness: From Socrates to the Present
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5. Summary of the New Model of Critical Open-Mindedness
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Part II. Critical Open-Mindedness: What Is It Good For?

6. Effects of Open-Mindedness on Decision Making, Morality, and Well-Being
John Lambie

7. Case Study II: Morality — The Levellers and Religious Toleration
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8. Case Study III: Science — Galileo and Critical Perspective Shifting
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Part III. Critical Open-Mindedness: What Underpins It?

9. History of Open and Closed Societies
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10. Psychological and Biological Roots of Open-Mindedness
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11. Case Study IV: Sound Self-Awareness — Joseph Stalin versus Jane Austen
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Part IV. Implications and Conclusions

12. Defending and Cultivating Critical Open-Mindedness
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13. Open-Mindedness, Science, and Religion
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14. Summary and Conclusion
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Keywords: History, Social History, Philosophy of Mind, Popular Science, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Ethics