The ways we think: from the straits of reason to the possibilities of thought

Content: Title Page 
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgements
 Chapter 1 Today's Thinking: Following the Lines of Rationalism 
 INTRODUCTION
 THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF THINKING
 Thinking in Educational Policy
 Thinking in Practice
 Some Initial Questions
 THINKING IN THEORY
 Introduction
 Critical Thinking
 Thinking Skills
 Richer than Rationalism?
 Philosophy for Children
 Philosophy in Schools
 Summary
 THE SUBJECT OF THOUGHT
 Thinking as Representation
 The Thinking Subject
 THE EXPERIENCE OF THINKING
 Possible Challenges
 A Phenomenological Route
 Overview of Book
 NOTES Chapter 2 A Brief Detour: 'Authentic' and 'Poetic' Thinking INTRODUCTION
 AUTHENTIC THINKING
 POETIC THINKING
 PROBLEMS WITH BONNETT'S ACCOUNT
 Problems with Authentic Thinking
 Problems with Poetic Thinking
 BEYOND BONNETT
 NOTES 
 Chapter 3 'Ahead of All Beaten Tracks': Ryle, Heidegger, and the Ways of Thinking 
 'AHEAD OF ALL BEATEN TRACKS'
 A SHARED PATH
 Introduction
 Ryle's Positive Reception of Phenomenology
 Heidegger's Indebtedness to Husserl
 Ryle Contra Phenomenology
 Heidegger's Critique of Husserl
 Summary
 AT THE CROSSROADS
 Introduction
 Ryle's Interpretation of Heidegger The Knowledge ObjectionThe Charge of Subjectivism
 FORGING A NEW PATH
 Introduction
 Being-in-the-World Reconsidered 
 Returning to Ryle
 Meaning and Interpretation
 Truth as Disclosure and Truth as Correctness
 RYLE REVISITED
 WAYS OF THINKING
 NOTES 
 Chapter 4 A Way Beyond: Thinking Responsibly with Heidegger 
 INTRODUCTION
 THE TURN TO LANGUAGE
 Language in Question
 Language as Representation
 Language as Productive
 Language and Poiesis
 Revealing and Concealing
 A WAY BEYOND
 Beyond Subjectivism
 The Context of Disclosure
 Responsiveness, Not Resignation
 An Example THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THINKINGImplications and Consequences
 Example One: The Cabinet Maker's Apprentice
 Example Two: The Jug and the Fourfold
 CONCLUSION
 NOTES
 Chapter 5 Following the Sign: Derrida and the Language of Thought 
 INTRODUCTION
 A THEMATIC POINT
 ROUTE ONE: PAST STRUCTURALISM
 Traditional View of Signs
 Sassurean Foundations
 Glimpsing the Opening
 DERRIDA'S ACCOUNT OF SIGNS
 Saussure's Relapse
 Derrida's Critique
 Writing and 'Arche-Writing' 
 TWO KEY NOTIONS
 Difference and Differance
 The Metaphysics of Presence
 CONCLUSION
 NOTES Chapter 6 Out of the Ordinary: Incorporating Limits with Derrida and Austin INTRODUCTION
 AUSTIN
 From Descriptions to Performatives
 Meaning, Thoughts, and Contexts
 Summary
 RETRACING DERRIDA
 Loose Ends
 Austin's Exclusions
 'So What?' Objections
 Ditches and Differences
 CAVELL'S CRITIQUE
 Introducing Cavell
 Cavell's Challenge
 Responding to Cavell
 Cavell Reconsidered
 OUT OF THE ORDINARY
 NOTES
 Chapter 7 The Way Before the Way Before: Crossing Paths with Heidegger and Derrida 
 INTRODUCTION
 PRELIMINARY THREADS
 EARLY
 Spirit of )Being and Time
 The Question of the Question
 MIDDLE