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Critical Thinking for College Students

Autor Jon Stratton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 oct 1999
The purpose of critical thinking, according to this text, is rethinking: that is, reviewing, evaluating, and revising thought. The approach of Critical Thinking for College Students is pragmatic and pluralistic: truth is viewed in terms of public confirmation and consensus, rather than with regard to naive realism, relativism, or popular opinion. The value of empathy and the legitimacy of diverse points of view are stressed. Nevertheless, it is necessary to use specific linguistic, logical, and evidential standards in order to evaluate thought.

The primary elements of critical thinking are:
-proper definition
-paraphrasing
-reconstruction
-empathy
-analysis of arguments
-evaluation of reasoning
-brainstorming
-imagination
-problem solving

The opening chapters of the text provide a thorough discussion of linguistic standards of meaning. A detailed examination of logical inference and informal fallacies follows. The final chapters of the book cover standards of evidence and problem solving.

Instructor's Manual: ISBN 0-8476-9603-0
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780847696024
ISBN-10: 0847696022
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 188 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Thinking, the Body, the Brain, and Language
Chapter 3 A Closer Look at Critical Thinking
Part 4 Verbal Thinking
Chapter 5 The Nature of Language and the Standards of Critical Thinking
Chapter 6 Attitudinal Standards and Empathy
Part 7 Logical Thinking
Chapter 8 Elements of Organization of Argument
Chapter 9 Evaluating Arguments
Chapter 10 Fallacies and the Eight Steps of Argument Evaluation
Part 11 Verbal and Logical Thinking
Chapter 12 Evidence
Chapter 13 Application: The Format
Part 14 Verbal, Logical, and Intuitive Thinking
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking in the Home, at Work, and in the Community
Chapter 16 Appendix
Chapter 17 Suggested Reading
Chapter 18 Index
Chapter 19 About the Author

Recenzii

Finally, a text that is not only about critical reasoning but is itself an excellent piece of philosophical thinking in its own right. We have needed a book like this for a long time. . . . It meets students where they are and takes them to a fresh and interesting engagement with the world of thinking.
Jon Stratton's textbook is a welcome, well-written approach to the study of critical thinking. It analyzes the character of arguments comprehensively-not only by examining standards for good reasoning, but by looking at the underlying communicative and emotional structure of discourse.