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

John Lambie is currently Reader in Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His primary research focus is on the awareness of emotion.

Preface 1. How is Human Progress Possible? PART I: CRITICAL OPEN MINDEDNESS: WHAT IS IT? 2. Introducing Critical Open Mindedness 3. Case Study I: Open and Closed Minds – Erasmus v. Luther 4. Previous Approaches to Open Mindedness: From Socrates to Present 5. Summary of the New Model PART II: CRITICAL OPEN MINDEDNESS: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? 6. Decision Making, Morality and Well Being 7. Case Study II: Morality -The Levellers and Religious Toleration 8. Case Study III: Science-Galileo and Critical Perspective-Shifting PART III: CRITICAL OPEN MINDEDNESS: WHAT UNDERPINS IT? 9. A History of Open and Closed Societies 10. Psychological amd Biological Roots of Open-Mindedness 11. Case Study IV: Sound Self-Awareness - Jane Austen v. Joseph Stalin PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 12. Defending and Cultivating Critical Open Mindedness 13. Open-Mindedness, Science and Religion 14. Summary and Conclusion