From which detergent to buy to who we should vote for, we are constantly bombarded by reasons to believe or do something. Should we be persuaded? Should we find the reasons others give compelling?
Everyone can benefit from a set of precision tools to use for evaluating reasoning.
This book offers a handy critical-thinking toolbox for all areas of academic study, the workplace and daily life.
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Stephen Duffin is a lecturer at Massey University, where he has taught critical thinking for the past 20 years. He also teaches courses on environmental ethics and philosophy of religion. Aside from his publications in these areas he is also the author of Reason in the Real World (Dunmore Press, 2008). Steve lives on a lifestyle block, and his hobbies include playing guitar and piano and trying to master the Arabian oud.
William Fish is a professor of philosophy at Massey University. He is the author of Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2010), co-author of Internal Security and Statebuilding: Aligning Agencies and Functions (Routledge, 2015), and editor of Perception: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge, 2016). He has also published a range of articles, encyclopaedia entries and book chapters. In addition to his involvement in teaching critical thinking, Bill also teaches courses on philosophy of mind and epistemology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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