There are two extreme views regarding the teaching of critical thinking and the role subject-specific knowledge plays in its development: the subject specifist view and the subject generalist view. The subject specifist view, championed by McPeak (McPeak, 1981) states that thinking is never without context and thus courses designed to teach informal logic in an abstract environment provide no benefit to the student’s capacity to think critically (McPeak, 1990). This perspective is supported by the work of prominent psychologists in the early 20th century (Thorndike and Woodworth, 1901a, 1901b, 1901c;Inhelder and Piaget, 1958)