Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide - Couverture souple

Bowell, Tracy; Kemp, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415471834 ISBN 13 : 9780415471831

Editeur : Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

A guide to argument analysis. It presents an introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. It tells how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion'; how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument; and, how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Key features of the book are:

• clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation
• how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as ‘truth’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘opinion’
• how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument
• how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad
• chapter summaries, glossaries and useful exercises.

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.

The Routledge Critical Thinking companion website, features a wealth of further resources, including examples and case studies, sample questions, practice questions and answers, and student activities.

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone, student or professional, at work or in the classroom, seeking to improve their reasoning and arguing skills.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Tracy Bowell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.  Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415471834
• ISBN 13: 9780415471831
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 304