Critical Thinking Concise Edition

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Tracy Bowell,Gary Kemp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415240174

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Critical Thinking by Tracy Bowell,Gary Kemp Pdf

A much-needed guide to thinking critically for oneself and how to tell a good argument from a bad one. Includes topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music, chapter summaries, glossary and exercises.

Author : William Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554812677

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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 : Lewis Vaughn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0197535801

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Concise Guide to Critical Thinking by Lewis Vaughn Pdf

Lewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition, this affordable volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more substantial than many of the smaller critical thinking handbooks. Optimize Student Learning with the Oxford Insight Study Guide All new print and digital copies of Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, include access to the Oxford Insight Study Guide, a data-driven, personalized digital learning tool that reinforces key concepts from the text and encourages effective reading and study habits. Developed with a learning-science-based design, Oxford Insight Study Guide engages students in an active and highly dynamic review of chapter content, empowering them to critically assess their own understanding of course material. Real-time, actionable data generated by student activity in the tool helps instructors ensure that each student is best supported along their unique learning path. Visit www.oup.com/he/vaughn_concise2e for a wealth of additional digital resources for students and instructors.

Author : Jeff McLaughlin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 Hughes,Jonathan Lavery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Linda Elder,Richard Paul
Publisher : Foundation for Critical Thinking
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538139516

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Critical Thinking by Linda Elder,Richard Paul Pdf

This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It provides students with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face. Now available from Rowman & Littlefield, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use focuses on the most basic critical thinking concepts. It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life. An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing. Content highlights include: Think for Yourself activities Discovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinking Learning to formulate clear and substantive questions Making the design of a course work for you Close reading and substantive writing Becoming a fairminded thinker

Author : Gary James Jason
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Lewis Vaughn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0197535798

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Concise Guide to Critical Thinking by Lewis Vaughn Pdf

Lewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition, this affordable volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more substantial than many of the smaller critical thinking handbooks. Optimize Student Learning with the Oxford Insight Study Guide All new print and digital copies of Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, include access to the Oxford Insight Study Guide, a data-driven, personalized digital learning tool that reinforces key concepts from the text and encourages effective reading and study habits. Developed with a learning-science-based design, Oxford Insight Study Guide engages students in an active and highly dynamic review of chapter content, empowering them to critically assess their own understanding of course material. Real-time, actionable data generated by student activity in the tool helps instructors ensure that each student is best supported along their unique learning path. Visit www.oup.com/he/vaughn_concise2e for a wealth of additional digital resources for students and instructors.

Author : Anthony Weston,Stephen Bloch-Schulman
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624668678

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Thinking Through Questions by Anthony Weston,Stephen Bloch-Schulman Pdf

Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions. Animated by wide-ranging and engaging exercises and examples, the book helps students deepen their understanding of how questions work and what questions do, and builds the skills needed to ask better questions. Cowritten by two of today's leading philosopher-teachers, Thinking Through Questions is specifically designed to complement, connect, and motivate today’s standard curricula, especially for classes in critical thinking, philosophical questioning, and creative problem- solving (called here "expansive questioning"). Offering students a wide and appreciative look at questions and questioning, this small book will also appeal to faculty and students across the disciplines: in college writing courses, creativity workshops, education schools, introductions to college thinking, design thinking projects, and humanities and thinking classes. Open-ended, creative, and critically self-possessed thinking is its constant theme—what field doesn’t need more of that?

Author : Philip Turetzky
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Craig DeLancey
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341431

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A Concise Introduction to Logic by Craig DeLancey Pdf

Author : Martin P. Golding
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442205239

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Critical Reasoning and Philosophy by M. Andrew Holowchak Pdf

Critical Reasoning & Philosophy has been praised as an innovative and clearly written handbook that teaches new philosophy students how to read, evaluate, and write in a critical manner. Concise, accessible language and ample use of examples and study modules help students gain the basic knowledge necessary to succeed in undergraduate philosophy courses, and to apply that knowledge to achieve success in other disciplines as well. With a reorganized presentation, fresh modules, new examples and illustrations, the second edition is even more clear and accessible to students.

Author : Tom Chatfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781526418777

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Critical Thinking by Tom Chatfield Pdf

Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018, Educational Books category Do you need to demonstrate a good argument or find more evidence? Are you mystified by your tutor′s comment ′critical analysis needed′? What does it really mean to think well - and how do you learn to do it? Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. So here’s your personal toolkit for demystifying critical engagement. I’ll show you how to sharpen your critical thinking by developing and practicing this set of skills, so you can... Spot an argument and get why reasoning matters Sniff out errors and evaluate evidence Understand and account for bias Become a savvy user of technology Develop clear, confident critical writing. Designed to work seamlessly with a power pack of digital resources and exercises, you′ll find practical and effective tools to think and write critically in an information-saturated age. No matter whether you′re launching on your first degree or arriving as an international or mature student, Critical Thinking gives you the skills, insights and confidence to succeed. In your critical thinking toolkit Watch the 10 commandments videos – life rules to change how you think Smart Study boxes share excellent tips to whip your work into shape BuzzFeed quizzes to test what (you think) you know Space to scribble! Journal your thoughts, questions, eureka moments as you go Chat more online with #TalkCriticalThinking