Arjun Khemani Podcast #2 – Sarah Fitz-Claridge: Taking Children Seriously, Fallibilism and the Growth of Knowledge
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Jun 10, 2022 
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Children Are Creative Problem Solvers
- Children are people with creative, problem-solving minds and coercion impedes their growth of knowledge.
- Taking children seriously is a condition of rationality because coercion suppresses criticism and creativity.
Creativity As Conjecture And Refutation
- Creativity is the human capacity to form conjectures and test them through criticism to grow knowledge.
- Most creative problem-solving happens unconsciously as minds propose and refute explanations.
Reject The Bucket Theory Of Mind
- Coercion imposes outcomes and embodies a 'might makes right' mindset that blocks genuine problem solving.
- The bucket theory of mind is false; minds are active, not passive receptacles of knowledge.