Critical thinking and the disciplines reconsidered

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Assessing Critical Thinking in Higher Education: Current State and Directions for Next-Generation Assessment. Research Report. ETS RR-14-10. (2014, background): “On one hand, many educators and philosophers believe that critical thinking is a set of skills and dispositions that can be applied across specific domains (Davies, 2013; Ennis, 1989; Moore, 2011).”
Learning outcomes and critical thinking – good intentions in conflict (2018, background): “Another position is that critical thinking is treated as a general set of abilities and dispositions (e.g. Davies 2013).”
Rubrics to assess critical thinking and information processing in undergraduate STEM courses (2020, background): “There has been an ongoing debate regarding the role of disciplinary knowledge in critical thinking and the extent to which critical thinking is subject-specific (Davies, 2013; Ennis, 1990).”
Measuring Critical Thinking in Physics: Development and Validation of a Critical Thinking Test in Electricity and Magnetism (2016, background): “The focus of the debate lies in whether CT is a set of general skills that can be applied across domains or whether it is largely specific to a particular domain (Bailin, 2002; Davies, 2013; Ennis, 1989; McPeck, 1990).”