First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. *** The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking teaches very clearly the essential skills to reason better--for classwork, for writing, and in everyday life. Hundreds of pertinent, analyzed, and engaging examples from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, radio, as well as dialogues of cartoon characters illustrate how to analyze arguments and make better decisions. The Pocket Guide is both the perfect supplement for any course that requires critical thinking and a practical aid for self-study. This fifth edition has new chapters on reasoning in the sciences that provide the basics for any student to begin the study of any science: explanations, experiments, the scientific methods, and models and theories.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Teaching Science & TechnologyTable of contents
- Table of contents
- Cast of Characters
- Chapter 1 Claims
- Chapter 2 Definitions
- Chapter 3 Arguments
- Chapter 4 What is a Good Argument?
- Chapter 5 Evaluating Premises
- Chapter 6 Repairing Arguments
- Chapter 7 Counterarguments
- Chapter 8 Concealed Claims
- Chapter 9 Fallacies
- Chapter 10 Compound Claims
- Chapter 11 General Claims
- Chapter 12 Prescriptive Claims
- Chapter 13 Numbers
- Chapter 14 Graphs
- Chapter 15 Analogies
- Chapter 16 Generalizing
- Chapter 17 Cause and Effect
- Chapter 18 Cause in Populations
- Chapter 19 The Scientific Method
- Chapter 20 Experiments
- Chapter 21 Explanations
- Chapter 22 Models and Theories
- Chapter 23 Evaluating Risk
- Chapter 24 Making Decisions
- Chapter 25 Writing Well
- Index
- about the author
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