A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe

INDICE: Preface Note to Instructors Chapter 1 The Nature and Value of Critical Thinking 1. The Nature of Critical Thinking 2. Critical Thinking and Knowledge 3. Knowledge and Truth 4. Knowledge and Belief 5. Knowledge and Justification 6. Good Reasons are Sufficient and Acceptable 7. When Evidence Conflicts 8. Critical Thinking and Personal Autonomy 9. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 2 Clarifying Meaning 1. The Place of Definitions in Critical Thinking 2. Assertion and the Assertion Test 3. Assertion Test 4. Constructing and Evaluating Definitions 5. Give a Slogan 6. Expand on the Slogan 7. Give Examples 8. Identify Contrasting Ideas 9. Thinking Critically about Frameworks 10. Clarifying Beliefs and Problems 11. Technical Definitions 12. Meaning in Advertisements 13. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 3 Sufficient Reasons 1. Critical Thinking and Arguments 2. Identifying Premises and Conclusions 3. Dependent and Independent Premises 4. Sub–Arguments 5. Evaluating Logical Support 6. Missing Premises 7. Piling on Independent Premises 8. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 4 Acceptable Reasons 1. Reliable Sources 2. Undermining and Overriding Evidence 3. Observation 4. Memory 5. Testimony 6. Advertising 7. News Reports 8. Measurement 9. Surveys 10. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 5 Reasoning about Alternatives and about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions 1. Reasoning about Alternatives 2. The Meaning of Disjunctions 3. Reasoning by Denying a Disjunct 4. False Disjunctions 5. When are Disjunctions Acceptable? 6. Exclusive Disjunctions 7. How to Criticize Reasoning about Alternatives 8. Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions 9. The Meaning of Conditionals 10. Valid Forms of Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions 11. Invalid Forms of Reasoning about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions 12. Making Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Explicit 13. When are Claims about Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Acceptable? 14. Reasoning with Definitions and Standards 15. Necessary and Sufficient Causal Conditions 16. Reasoning with Causal Claims 17. Discovering Causal Conditions 18. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 6 Reasoning by Analogy 1. Reasoning by Perfect Analogy 2. Is Reasoning by Analogy valid? 3. When is an Analogical Claim True? 4. Reasoning using Representational Analogy 5. Reasoning with Samples 6. When are Samples Representative? 7. Reasoning with Maps and Models 8. Critical Thinking in Practice Chapter 7 Critical Thinking in Action 1. Thinking Critically about a Discipline 2. Identifying a Discipline’s Sources of Evidence 3. Identifying a Discipline’s forms of Reasoning 4. Critical Thinking Questions 5. Thinking Critically in your own Decision Making 6. Thinking Critically in Discussion 7. From Theory to Practice: applying what we have learned Appendix A: Critical Thinking Mistakes Appendix B: Critical Thinking Strategies

• ISBN: 978-1-118-58308-1
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés