Critical Thinking: Step by Step
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Product Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking skills and the philosophical and factual bases of critical thinking.
Contents: ^I ANALYSIS OF REASONING. Short Simple Reasoning; Longer More Complex Discourse. EVALUATION OF REASONING. Basic Concepts of Evaluation; Degrees of Support Reasons Give to Conclusions; Critical Life Decisions: Complete Evaluation of Reasoning; Syllogistic Logic; Reasoning with Statements; Moderate to Fallacious Arguments. EVALUATING UNSUPPORTED BELIEFS. Justification, Paradigms, and Reasoning; Seeing, Reasoning and Scientific Justification; Justification in Law; Philosophical Dialectic and High Justification; Religion and Science; Pseudoscience as Unjustified Statements; The United States and the Global Corporate Economy. Appendices; Index; Bibliography; Exercises.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2331722 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-08
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 392 pages
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About the Author
Robert Cogan is Professor of Philosophy at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
