5/31/2023 0 Comments De bono serious creativity![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, other thinking frameworks, such as Philosophy for Children, founded on nonadversarial conceptions of philosophy, also employ the deliberate teaching of skills to encourage creative and divergent thinking. An alternative view of Socrates is that the purpose of his method of philosophical inquiry was to show people how to think for themselves rather than to destroy another person’s argument for the sake of proving one’s own position. ![]() Another criticism is that his description of traditional Western thinking overemphasizes the more extreme forms of adversarial argument apparent in some traditional methods of classroom practice, assuming that all Western philosophical thinking is necessarily adversarial. Robert Weisberg, a cognitive psychologist, argues that there is insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of lateral thinking and that the creative process is better described as a process of logical thinking, trial and error, feedback, and reflection. Edward de Bono’s efforts as an advocate for lateral thinking and creative thinking as an essential skill for creativity and innovation have not gone without criticism. ![]()
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