Critical thinking a concise guide

• Main Authors: Bowell, Trac (Author), Kemp, Gary (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Routledge 2005
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Critical thinking
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Critical Thinking is a much-needed guide to thinking skills and above all to thinking critically for oneself. Through clear discussion, students learn the skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one.

Table of Contents:

• Why should we become critical thinkers?
• Logic : deductive validity
• Logic : inductive force
• Rhetorical ploys and fallacies
• The practice of argument reconstruction
• Issues in argument assessment
• Truth, knowledge and belief