Good Arguments

An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Connie A. Missimer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004 | 4th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-184570-1 (ISBN)

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For courses in Argumentative Writing, Critical Thinking, and Informal Logic.

This text proceeds from critical thinking in everyday life to sophisticated critical thinking in academic fields, with chapters which clearly outline the types of evidence in science, the social sciences, and the humanities. Unlike most other texts, it offers a clear description of critical thinking as the comparison of formulas of critical thinking.

1. Welcome to the Community of Thinkers.

2. The Basics: Issue, Conclusion, and Reason.

3. How to Create Alternative Arguments.

4. Deciding to Accept an Argument: Compare the Evidence.

5. Warranted Inference: Where Reasons and Conclusion Join.

6. Other Connections: Assumptions and Implications.

7. Prescriptions.

8. Evaluating Alternative Arguments in Light of Their Evidence, and Theories of Critical Thinking Compared.

9. How to Follow Complex Arguments.

10. Deliberations.

11. Experiment, Correlation, and Speculation.

12. Flimsy Structures.

13. Problem Solving by Way of Review.

14. The Dialogue: How to Construct Alternative Arguments.

15. The Research Paper: A Simple Guide.

Glossary.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.8.2004
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-13-184570-5 / 0131845705
ISBN-13	978-0-13-184570-1 / 9780131845701
Zustand	Neuware