Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict - Couverture souple

Waller, Bruce N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130896039 ISBN 13 : 9780130896032

Editeur : Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For undergraduate-level courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, General Logic, and Critical Writing (typically taught by English Departments), as well as introductory or advanced argumentation courses.

Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, this introduction to critical thinking shows students not only how to detect fallacies, but also how to examine, appreciate, and construct cogent arguments. Accessible and reader friendly--yet thorough and rigorous--it shows them how to integrate all their logic skills into the critical decision-making process they undertake in their own lives as citizens and consumers.

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict offers an entertaining yet rigorous study of critical thinking. The text is packed with fascinating real-life exercises from trial arguments and jury deliberations, political debates and advertising campaigns, social controversies and scientific studies.

Readers learn to analyze, understand, and construct the sound arguments that are vital to our lives as citizens and consumers, jurors and voters. The author also explains how to detect argument errors and deceptions.

The Fourth Edition features:

• extensive new material throughout
• an entirely new chapter on thinking critically with statistics
• dozens of exercises from criminal and civil trials, Supreme Court decisions, and contemporary social debates.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130896039
• ISBN 13: 9780130896032
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 478
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible