Becoming a Critical Thinker

A User Friendly Manual

Sherry Diestler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2004 | 4th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-177998-3 (ISBN)

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For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and English courses which cover the Argumentative Essay.

This text trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no evidence to support them. It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.

1. Foundations of Arguments: What is a Critical Thinker and When Do You Need to Be One?

2. Values and Ethics: What Price Ethics and Can You afford Not to Pay?

3. Reality Assumptions: It's Eleven O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your Assumptions Are?

4. Inductive Arguments: Statistical and Causal Generalizations: Prove It to Me: What Are the Statistics?

5. Inductive Generalizations: Controlled Studies and Analogies.

6. Reasoning Errors: I Know What I Think. Don't Confuse Me with Facts.

7. The Power of Language: What's in a Name?

8. Suggestion in Media: Is What You See What You Get? Do You Really Want It?

9. Fair-Mindedness: It's You and Me, Kid, and I'm Not So Sure About You.

10. Persuasive Speaking: What's Your Point? How Do You Sharpen It?

Glossary.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2004
Sprache	englisch
Maße	176 x 235 mm
Gewicht	668 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-13-177998-2 / 0131779982
ISBN-13	978-0-13-177998-3 / 9780131779983
Zustand	Neuware