Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide

✍ Scribed by Gary Kemp & Tracy Bowell

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy.  Read more...

Abstract:

A guide to argument analysis. It presents an introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. It tells how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion'; how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument; and, how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface to the first edition --
Preface to the second edition --
Preface to the third edition --
Introduction and preview --
Introducing arguments --
Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys --
Logic: deductive validity --
Logic: inductive force --
The practice of argument-reconstruction --
Issues in argument assessment --
Pseudo-reasoning --
Truth knowledge and belief.

✦ Subjects

Critical thinking;Critical thinking;Study and teaching;Language and logic;Reasoning;PHILOSOPHY;Logic;Kritisches Denken;Argumentation;Kritisch denken;Cognitieve vaardigheden;Redeneren;Argumentatie;Theorie en praktijk