ISBN10: 0761810676, ISBN13: 9780761810674, [publisher: University Press of America, Lanham, MD] Softcover Paperback. This book is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking skills and the philosophical and factual bases of critical thinking. Contents: ^I ANALYSIS OF REASONING. Short Simple Reasoning; Longer More Complex Discourse. EVALUATION OF REASONING. Basic Concepts of Evaluation; Degrees of Support Reasons Give to Conclusions; Critical Life Decisions: Complete Evaluation of Reasoning; Syllogistic Logic; Reasoning with Statements; Moderate to Fallacious Arguments. EVALUATING UNSUPPORTED BELIEFS. Justification, Paradigms, and Reasoning; Seeing, Reasoning and Scientific Justification; Justification in Law; Philosophical Dialectic and High Justification; Religion and Science; Pseudoscience as Unjustified Statements; The United States and the Global Corporate Economy. Appendices; Index; Bibliography; Exercises. This book is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking skills and the philosophical and factual bases of critical thinking. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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