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Concise Guide to Critical Thinking

Vaughn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2020 | 2nd edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780197535790 (ISBN)

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Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, second edition, offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on the authors 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.NEW TO THIS EDITIONNew chapter on fake news that shows how to identify fake news, distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate reasons for accepting a claim, assess the reliability of online information by reading laterally, use Google and Wikipedia judiciously, identify and use trustworthy fact-checkers, and understand the ethical implications of sharing fake newsNew chapter on commercial and political advertising that explains how online targeted advertising works, how political video ads can present false or misleading messages, and why the most insidious and relentless political ads may be the ones that we see on FacebookCoverage of even more psychological obstacles to critical thinking, including motivated reasoning, the mere exposure effect, the false consensus effect, the illusion-of-truth effect, and the Dunning-Kruger effectA revised discussion of how to judge experts, supplemented with a "hierarchy of reliability" chart-a general ranking of trustworthiness for the sources that we rely on for most of our knowledgeNew section in Chapter 11: Judging Scientific Theories on how to think critically and scientifically about climate changeNew material in Chapter 12: Fallacies and Persuaders discusses of the now-prevalent fallacy of whataboutism and provides a checklist of techniques for dealing with online ad hominem attacks.This title is available as an eBook. Please contact your Learning Resource Consultant for more information.

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several textbooks, including Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media (2020), Living Philosophy, Third Edition (2020), Bioethics, Fourth Edition (2019), The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition (2018), and Philosophy Here and Now, Third Edition (2018).

1. Critical Thinking, Facts, and Feelings2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking3. Identifying and Evaluation Arguments4. Deductive Argument Patterns5. Inductive Arguments and Statistics6. Evidence and Experts7. Fake News8. Advertising: Commercial and Political9. Casual Arguments10. Inference to the Best Explanation11. Judging Scientific Theories12. Fallacies and Persuaders13. Critical Thinking in Morality

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-13	9780197535790 / 9780197535790
Zustand	Neuware