Critical Thinking : An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning
ISBN: 9780199796229 | 019979622X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/29/2012
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Now in its second edition, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning provides a nontechnical vocabulary and analytic apparatus that guide students in identifying and articulating the central patterns found in reasoning and in expository writing more generally.Understanding these patterns of reasoning helps students to better analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments and to more easily comprehend the full range of everyday arguments found in ordinary journalism.Critical Thinking, Second Edition, distinguishes itself... MORE
| Chapters 1 and 4-8 open with an Introduction | |
| Each chapter ends with Supplemental Exercises and Answers | |
| Preface | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| The Bare Bones Paraphrase | |
| The Concept of Paraphrase | |
| Reading and Paraphrase | |
| Technique and Vocabulary | |
| Human Understanding | |
| Subtler Issues | |
| Two Principles o... MORE | |
| Things to Keep in Mind | |
| Reading for Structure: Dependency and Subordination | |
| Complexity | |
| Technique and Vocabulary | |
| Useful Patterns | |
| Tricks for Tough Cases | |
| Systematic Features | |
| Trial and Error Exercise | |
| Reading for Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments | |
| Reading for a Particular Purpose | |
| Reading for Reasoning | |
| A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage | |
| Charitable Schematizing | |
| Analyzing Reasoning | |
| Argument Analysis: Answering Questions | |
| The Purpose of Analysis | |
| The Fundamental Concepts: Questions and Answers | |
| Refining the Apparatus and Exercising Our Skills | |
| Evaluating Arguments: How Good Are the Reasons? | |
| Interim Summary: What We Have Learned So Far | |
| Dealing with Disagreement | |
| Diagnostic Arguments: Reasoning by Explaining | |
| Diagnostic Questions | |
| Diagnostic Concepts | |
| Objects and Resources | |
| Refinements | |
| Diagnostic Investigation | |
| Diagnostic Patterns | |
| Cause and Correlation | |
| Testimony | |
| Sampling | |
| Counting Cases: Induction by Enumeration | |
| Circumstantial Evidence | |
| Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation | |
| Prediction | |
| Recommendation | |
| Fallacies | |
| Fallacies of Construction | |
| Critical Fallacies | |
| Appendix | |
| Deduction | |
| Introduction | |
| Semantic Conflict | |
| Semantic Evaluation | |
| Deductive Arguments | |
| Structure | |
| Tests and Criteria | |
| Relative Strength | |
| Summary | |
| Glossary of Important Terms | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Larry Wright is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has taught since 1970. He is the author of Practical Reasoning (1989), Better Reasoning: Techniques for Handling Argument, Evidence & Abstraction (1982), and Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions (1976).
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