Ana Valenzuela is a contemporary philosopher working in the theory of critical thinking and education. Her work engages with debates about the generalizability of thinking skills, particularly challenging subject-specificity arguments advanced by John McPeck. She defends the view that domain-general cognitive skills play a meaningful role in reasoning across disciplines.
Critiqued McPeck's subject-specificity thesis regarding critical thinking
Contributed to debates on transferable versus domain-specific reasoning skills