Critical Thinking An Introduction To The Basic Skills Canadian Seventh Edition

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770485877

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Critical Thinking - Concise Edition by William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery Pdf

Critical Thinking is a comprehensive introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning, refined and updated through seven editions published over more than two decades. This concise edition offers a succinct presentation of the essential elements of reasoning that retains the rigor and sophistication of the original text. The authors provide a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is not. A companion website provides a range of interesting supplements, including interactive review materials, supplemental readings, and writing tips.

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460404751

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Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills - Canadian Seventh Edition by William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery Pdf

Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning, written by Canadian authors for Canadian readers. The book includes a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is not. Later chapters discuss the application of critical thinking skills to particular topics and tasks, including scientific reasoning, moral reasoning, media analysis, and essay writing. This seventh edition is revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on legal reasoning as well as access to a companion website of additional questions and other useful resources.

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554811991

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Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills - Canadian Seventh Edition by William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery Pdf

Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning, written by Canadian authors for Canadian readers. The book includes a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is not. Later chapters discuss the application of critical thinking skills to particular topics and tasks, including scientific reasoning, moral reasoning, legal reasoning, media analysis, and essay writing. The book also provides access to a companion website containing additional questions, flashcards, and other useful critical thinking resources.

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery,Katheryn Doran
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770485099

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Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills - Seventh Edition by William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery,Katheryn Doran Pdf

Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning. The authors provide a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is not. Later chapters discuss the application of critical thinking skills to particular topics and tasks, including scientific reasoning, moral reasoning, media analysis, and essay writing. This seventh edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on legal reasoning as well as access to a companion website of additional questions and other useful resources.

Author : Alec Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107401983

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Critical Thinking by Alec Fisher Pdf

This text meets the requirements of the OCR AS specification for critical thinking. Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts.

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551115735

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Critical Thinking, fourth edition by William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery Pdf

"William Hughes's Critical Thinking, recently revised and updated by Jonathan Lavery, is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments. Hughes and Lavery give a thorough treatment of such traditional topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies and how to spot them, the importance of inference, how to recognise and avoid ambiguity, and how to assess what is or is not relevant to an argument. But they also cover a variety of topics not always treated in books of this sort - special concerns to keep in mind when reasoning about ethical matters and how the nature of a language can affect the structure of an argument. The book gives a lucid treatment of the differences between descriptive and evaluative meaning: one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist." "For the fourth edition, Jonathan Lavery has added a new chapter on scientific reasoning, expanded the treatment of analogies, added numerous examples, and revised and updated the text throughout."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jonathan Lavery,William Hughes,Katheryn Doran
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition by Jonathan Lavery,William Hughes,Katheryn Doran Pdf

William Hughes's Critical Thinking, recently revised and updated by Jonathan Lavery and Katheryn Doran, is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments. Hughes, Lavery, and Doran give a thorough treatment of such traditional topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, the importance of inference, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to assess what is or is not relevant to an argument. The authors also cover less traditional topics such as special concerns to keep in mind when reasoning about ethical matters, and how the nature of a language can affect the structure of an argument. In addition to covering basic concepts for analyzing and assessing arguments, the text also has two chapters that are designed to help students write argumentative essays. Last but not least, Critical Thinking includes a selection of logical paradoxes and puzzles that are as entertaining as they are enlightening. For the sixth edition particular attention has been paid to the needs of American students and instructors.

Author : Martin P. Golding
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1551114224

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Legal Reasoning by Martin P. Golding Pdf

In a book that is a blend of text and readings, Martin P. Golding explores legal reasoning from a variety of angles—including that of judicial psychology. The primary focus, however, is on the ‘logic’ of judicial decision making. How do judges justify their decisions? What sort of arguments do they use? In what ways do they rely on legal precedent? Golding includes a wide variety of cases, as well as a brief bibliographic essay (updated for this Broadview Encore Edition).

Author : Jeff McLaughlin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554812165

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How to Think Critically by Jeff McLaughlin Pdf

Jeff McLaughlin’s How to Think Critically begins with the premise that we are all, every day, engaged in critical thinking. But as we may develop bad habits in daily life if we don’t scrutinize our practices, so we are apt to develop bad habits in critical thinking if we are careless in our reasoning. This book exists to instill good thinking habits: attentiveness to word choice, avoidance of fallacies, and effective construction and assessment of arguments. With relatable and often amusing examples included throughout, the book adopts a degree of technical sophistication that is rigorous and yet still easily applied to ordinary situations. Readers are presented with a traditional step-by-step method for analysis that can be applied to all argument forms. Hundreds of exercises (with solutions) are included, as are several random statement generators which can be used to create thousands of additional examples. Venn diagrams, truth tables, and other essential concepts are presented not as definitions for academic study but as tools for better thinking and living.

Author : William J. Stevenson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Production management
ISBN : 1259686663

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Operations Management by William J. Stevenson Pdf

Author : Philip Turetzky
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460406465

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The Elements of Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Logic by Philip Turetzky Pdf

The Elements of Arguments introduces such central critical thinking topics as informal fallacies, the difference between validity and truth, basic formal propositional logic, and how to extract arguments from texts. Turetzky aims to prevent common confusions by clearly explaining a number of important distinctions, including propositions vs. propositional attitudes, propositions vs. states of affairs, and logic vs. rhetoric vs. psychology. Exercises are provided throughout, including numerous informal arguments that can be assessed using the skills and strategies presented within the text.

Author : Gary James Jason
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770488328

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The Critical Thinking Book by Gary James Jason Pdf

The Critical Thinking Book covers not only standard topics such as definitions, fallacies, and argument identification, but also other pertinent themes such as consumer choice in a market economy and political choice in a representative democracy. Interesting historical asides are included throughout, as are images, diagrams, and reflective questions. A wealth of exercises is provided, both within the text and on a supplemental website for instructors.

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770482296

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Scientific Thinking by Robert M. Martin Pdf

Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning—the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin’s writing confounds those who would think that such topics must be dry-as-dust, presenting ideas in a lively and engaging tone and incorporating amusing examples throughout. This book underlines the importance of acquiring good habits of scientific thinking, and helps to instill those habits in the reader. Stimulating questions and exercises are included in each chapter.

Author : Paul MacRae
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460406632

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Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide - Second Canadian Edition by Paul MacRae Pdf

Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal reports, brochures and press releases, and oral presentations are included. Exercises guide readers through the process of creating and revising each genre, and helpful tips, reminders, and suggested resources beyond the book are provided throughout. The second edition includes new sections on information security and ethics in business writing. New formal proposal examples have been added, and the text has been updated throughout.

Author : Jerome E. Bickenbach,Jacqueline M. Davies
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551110598

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Good Reasons for Better Arguments by Jerome E. Bickenbach,Jacqueline M. Davies Pdf

This text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication—from Aristotle’s recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas’s developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors’ treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument. If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments. Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.