Practical Guide to Critical Thinking (eBook)
256 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-58312-8 (ISBN)
David A. Hunter, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University, Canada. He has published numerous journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and critical thinking.
Preface
Note to Instructors
Chapter 1 The Nature and Value of Critical Thinking
1. The Nature of Critical Thinking
2. Critical Thinking and Knowledge
3. Knowledge and Truth
4. Knowledge and Belief
5. Knowledge and Justification
6. Good Reasons are Sufficient and Acceptable
7. When Evidence Conflicts
8. Critical Thinking and Personal Autonomy
9. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 2 Clarifying Meaning
1. The Place of Definitions in Critical Thinking
2. Assertion and the Assertion Test
3. Assertion Test
4. Constructing and Evaluating Definitions
5. Give a Slogan
6. Expand on the Slogan
7. Give Examples
8. Identify Contrasting Ideas
9. Thinking Critically about Frameworks
10. Clarifying Beliefs and Problems
11. Technical Definitions
12. Meaning in Advertisements
13. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 3 Sufficient Reasons
1. Critical Thinking and Arguments
2. Identifying Premises and Conclusions
3. Dependent and Independent Premises
4. Sub-Arguments
5. Evaluating Logical Support
6. Missing Premises
7. Piling on Independent Premises
8. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 4 Acceptable Reasons
1. Reliable Sources
2. Undermining and Overriding Evidence
3. Observation
4. Memory
5. Testimony
6. Advertising
7. News Reports
8. Measurement
9. Surveys
10. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 5 Reasoning about Alternatives and about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
1. Reasoning about Alternatives
2. The Meaning of Disjunctions
3. Reasoning by Denying a Disjunct
4. False Disjunctions
5. When are Disjunctions Acceptable?
6. Exclusive Disjunctions
7. How to Criticize Reasoning about Alternatives
8. Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
9. The Meaning of Conditionals
10. Valid Forms of Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
11. Invalid Forms of Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
12. Making Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Explicit
13. When are Claims about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Acceptable?
14. Reasoning with Definitions and Standards
15. Necessary and Sufficient Causal Conditions
16. Reasoning with Causal Claims
17. Discovering Causal Conditions
18. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 6 Reasoning by Analogy
1. Reasoning by Perfect Analogy
2. Is Reasoning by Analogy valid?
3. When is an Analogical Claim True?
4. Reasoning using Representational Analogy
5. Reasoning with Samples
6. When are Samples Representative?
7. Reasoning with Maps and Models
8. Critical Thinking in Practice
Chapter 7 Critical Thinking in Action
1. Thinking Critically about a Discipline
2. Identifying a Discipline's Sources of Evidence
3. Identifying a Discipline's forms of Reasoning
4. Critical Thinking Questions
5. Thinking Critically in your own Decision Making
6. Thinking Critically in Discussion
7. From Theory to Practice: applying what we have learned
Appendix A: Critical Thinking Mistakes
Appendix B: Critical Thinking Strategies
"A well-structured path of increasing diculty,
disseminated by useful examples and study cases taken from a
variety of disciplines as well as from common situations."
Zentralblatt MATH (of the previous edition)
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.10.2014 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
Schlagworte | Critical theory • Kritische Theorie • Logic & Foundations • Logik u. Grundlagen der Mathematik • Mathematics • Mathematik • Philosophical Logic • Philosophie • Philosophische Logik • Philosophy |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-58312-4 / 1118583124 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-58312-8 / 9781118583128 |
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