In Networks of Trust , Anthony Laden argues that higher education should shift from cultivating broadly scientific thinking to fostering open-mindedness. While the expected benefits of this proposal are richly detailed, potential costs are not similarly explored. Here, I flesh out some consequences of Laden’s proposal for higher education, and argue that the costs of his preferred educative model may turn out to be just as weighty as those he attributes to the current model.
M. Afton Greco (Thu,) studied this question.