Moore, Brooke Noel

Critical thinking / Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker - Dubuque : McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2015 - xxii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Contents:

Chapter 1: What is critical thinking, anyway? -- Chapter 2 : Two kinds of reasoning -- Chapter 3 : Clear thinking, critical thinking, and clear writing -- Chapter 4 : Credibility -- Chapter 5 : Rhetoric, the art of persuasion -- Chapter 6 : Relevance (Red Herring) fallacies -- Chapter 7: Induction Fallacies -- Chapter 8 : Formal fallacies and fallacies of language -- Chapter 9 : Deductive arguments I Categorical logic -- Chapter 10 : Deductive arguments II Truth-functional logic -- Chapter 11: Inductive reasoning -- Chapter 12 : Moral, legal, and aesthetic reasoning

Designed specifically for the critical thinking course, this title teaches students the skills they need in order to think for themselves - skills they will call upon in this course, in other college courses, and in the world that awaits

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