Asking the Right Questions

A Guide to Critical Thinking

M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

221 Seiten

2000 | 6th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-089134-1 (ISBN)

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This book helps readers bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis.

For all level Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, and Informal Logic courses in English, Social Science, Philosophy, Education, Journalism, and Mass Communication departments.

This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

1. The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions.

2. What Are the Issue and the Conclusion?

3. What Are the Reasons?

4. What Words or Phrases Are Ambiguous?

5. What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?

6. What Are the Descriptive Assumptions?

7. Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning?

8. How Good Is the Evidence: Intuition, Appeals to Authority, and Testimonials?

9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Case Studies, Research Studies, and Analogies?

10. Are There Rival Causes?

11. Are the Statistics Deceptive?

12. What Significant Information Is Omitted?

13. What Reasonable Conclusions Are Possible?

14. Practice and Review.

Final Word.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.8.2000
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-13-089134-7 / 0130891347
ISBN-13	978-0-13-089134-1 / 9780130891341
Zustand	Neuware