Critical thinking
Imagine a class where students are actively and personally engaged in thinking critically while also discovering how to apply those thinking skills in everyday life. Now imagine those same students confidently participating in class, working efficiently through the exercises outside class, and perfo...
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New York, NY
McGraw-Hill
2012
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| Edition: | 10th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is critical thinking anyway?
- Two kinds of reasoning
- Clear thinking, critical thinking, and clear writing
- Credibility
- Persuasion through rhetoric: common devices and techniques
- More rhetorical devices: psychological and related fallacies
- More fallacies
- Deductive arguments I: categorical logic
- Deductive arguments II: truth-functional logic
- Thinking critically about inductive reasoning
- Causal explanation
- Moral, legal, and aesthetic reasoning.