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.
Key features of the book are:
- clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation
- how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as âtruthâ, âknowledgeâ and âopinionâ
- how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument
- how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad
- chapter summaries, glossaries and useful exercises.
This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: âreal-worldâ 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.
The Routledge Critical Thinking companion website, features a wealth of further resources, including examples and case studies, sample questions, practice questions and answers, and student activities.
Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone, student or professional, at work or in the classroom, seeking to improve their reasoning and arguing skills.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Logic & Language
- Philosophy
Publisher : Routledge
Author : Bowell, Tracy,Kemp, Gary
Language : English
Edition : 3
Published :2009-08-13
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0415471834
ISBN-13 : 9780415471831
Item weight : 1.23 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 6.85 in x 9.61 in
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