Thinking Critically
ISBN: 9780618947195 | 0618947191
Edition: 9thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 12/26/2007
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Thinking Critically teaches the fundamental thinking, reasoning, reading, and writing abilities that students need for success. The text begins with basic skills related to personal experience and then carefully progresses to the more sophisticated reasoning skills required for abstract, academic contexts. The Ninth Edition maintains the hallmarks that make Thinking Critically an effective tool for both instructors and students. Each chapter provides an overview of an aspect of critical thinking, such as problem-solving, perception, and the nature of beliefs--all of which are reinforced by provocative readings and Thinking Activities for student review and practice. Visual Thinking features provide images for evaluation and discussion, while Thinking Passages present readings and questions for analysis. Exercises, discussion topics, and writing assignments encourage active participation and prompt students to critically examine others' thinking, as well as their own.
| Thinking Living an "Examined" | |
| Life A Roadmap to Your Mind | |
| Working Toward Goals Images | |
| Decision-Making, and Thinking | |
| About Visual Information | |
| An Organized Approach to Making Decisions | |
| Discovering "Who" You Are Living | |
| Creatively Final Thoughts | |
| Thinking Critically | |
| Thinking Actively | |
| Carefully Exploring | |
| Situations with Questions | |
| Thinking Independently | |
| Viewing Situations from Different Perspectives | |
| Supporting Diverse | |
| Perspectives with Reasons and Evidence | |
| Discussing Ideas in an Organized Way | |
| Becoming a Critical Thinker | |
| Analyzing Issues | |
| Solving Problems | |
| Thinking Critically About Problems | |
| Introduction to Solving Problems | |
| Solving Complex | |
| Problems Solving | |
| Nonpersonal Problems | |
| Perceiving and Believing | |
| Actively Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting Sensations | |
| Perceiving and Believing | |
| Believing and Perceiving | |
| Types of Beliefs: Report, Inferences, Judgments | |
| Reporting Factual Information | |
| Inferring Judging | |
| Constructing Knowledge | |
| Believing and Knowing | |
| Knowledge and Truth | |
| Thinking Critically About Your Beliefs | |
| Using Perspective-Taking to Achieve | |
| Knowledge Beliefs | |
| Based on Indirect Experience | |
| Evaluating Online Information | |
| Final Thoughts | |
| Language and Thought | |
| The Evolution of Language | |
| The Symbolic Nature of Language | |
| Using Language Effectively | |
| Using Language to Clarify | |
| Thinking Using Language in Social Contexts | |
| Using Language to Influence | |
| Final Thoughts | |
| Forming Applying Concepts | |
| What Are Concepts? | |
| The Structure of Concepts | |
| Forming Concepts | |
| Applying Concepts | |
| Defining Concepts | |
| Relating Concept with Mind Maps | |
| Final Thoughts | |
| Relating and Organizing | |
| Chronological and Process | |
| Relationships Comparative and Analogical | |
| Relationships Causal | |
| Relationships Final Thoughts | |
| Thinking Critically About Moral Issues | |
| What Is Ethics? | |
| Your Moral Compass | |
| The Thinker's Guide to Moral | |
| Decision-Making | |
| Constructing Arguments | |
| Recognizing Arguments | |
| Evaluating Arguments | |
| Understanding Deductive Arguments | |
| Constructing Extended Arguments | |
| Final Thoughts | |
| Reasoning Critically | |
| Inductive Reasoning | |
| Empirical Generalization | |
| Fallacies of False Generalization | |
| Causal Reasoning | |
| Causal Fallacies | |
| Fallacies of Relevance | |
| The Critical Thinker's | |
| Guide to Reasoning | |
| Thinking Critically, Living | |
| Creatively Living a Life | |
| Philosophy Deciding on a Career | |
| Thinking Critically About | |
| Personal Relationships | |
| The Thinker's Guide to Healthy Relationships | |
| Choosing the "Good Life" | |
| Glossary Index | |
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