Written by international authorities on critical thinking, this book details an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary. It provides students with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions-thinking, feeling, motivating-influence one another.
Critical Thinking fosters the development of fair-minded critical thinking and explores essential intellectual standards of clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness; the importance of skilled and deep questioning; and how to take thinking apart in order to find problems in thinking and then improve thinking.
The fourth edition features
Think for Yourself activities
Glossary of critical thinking terms
New chapter on argumentation
New chapters on critical thinking in the professions (including critique of disciplines)
Discussion of the Internet's effects on our lives
Updated discussions of media bias and political propaganda, as well as egocentric and sociocentric thought as barriers to critical thinking.
The Foundation for Critical Thinking continually offers new supplementary resources on its website (CriticalThinking.org) and in its online critical thinking community (CriticalThinkingCommunity.org).
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Critical Thinking
Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life
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Education Theory & PracticeTable of contents
- About the Authors
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Become A Fairminded Thinker
- 2: The First Four Stages of Development: At What Level of Thinking Would You Place Yourself?
- 3: Self-Understanding in a Complex World
- 4: The Parts of Thinking
- 5: Standards for Thinking
- 6: Ask Questions That Lead to Good Thinking
- 7: Master the Thinking, Master the Content
- 8: Discover How the Best Thinkers Learn
- 9: Redefine Grades as Levels of Thinking and Learning
- 10: Make Decisions and Solve Problems
- 11: Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking
- 12: Deal with Your Irrational Mind
- 13: Develop as an Ethical Reasoner
- 14: How to Detect Media Bias and Political Propaganda
- 15: Fallacies
- 16: Learning and Using Information Critically and Ethically
- 17: Learning and Using Information Critically and Ethically
- 18: Strategic Thinking
- 19: Strategic Thinking
- 20: Becoming an Advanced Thinker: Our Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- A Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Community Announcement
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