The New Critical Thinking: An Empirically Informed Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781032317281 / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str.

Barry Ward

Opis

This highly innovative text aims to improve real-world critical thinking, incorporating insights from epistemology and philosophy of science and covering introductory logic in a way that emphasizes practical application.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Critical Thinking; Part I: Deduction; 2. Validity and Why it Matters; 3. Testing for Validity; 4. Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments; Part II: Induction; 5. Inductive Arguments; 6. Causal Inference; 7. Probability and Frequency; 8. Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited; Part III: Truth: Evaluating Premises; 9. Trust and the Media; 10. Science; Part IV: Argumentation; 11. Rhetoric; 12. Dialectic.

O autorze

Jack Lyons is Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow.

Barry Ward is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas.