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What people may do versus can do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2011

Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. dk100@columbia.edu www.educationforthinking.org
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Abstract

It warrants examining how well people can come to argue under supportive conditions, not only what they do under ordinary conditions. Sustained engagement of young people in dialogic argumentation yields more than the temporary “contextual effect” that Mercier & Sperber (M&S) identify in the target article. If such engagement were to become the norm, who can say what the argumentive potential of future generations is?

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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