Bowell, Tracy, 1965-
Critical thinking : a concise guide / Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp. - 3rd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - x, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief.
Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy.
9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415471826 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415471831 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415471834 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203874134 (ebook) 0203874137 (ebook)
2009002265
Critical thinking.
Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
Language and logic.
Reasoning.
B809.2 / .B69 2010
Critical thinking : a concise guide / Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp. - 3rd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - x, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief.
Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy.
9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415471826 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415471831 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415471834 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203874134 (ebook) 0203874137 (ebook)
2009002265
Critical thinking.
Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
Language and logic.
Reasoning.
B809.2 / .B69 2010