The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking

ISBN-13: 9780742559790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str.

Noel Hendrickson;Rowman and Littlefield

Opis

Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning. The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues: - Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes - General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments - Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony - Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations - A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables - Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty - A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities - An extended discussion of informal fallacies - An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing