The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims - Softcover

Vaughn, Lewis

 
9780195161427: The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims

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This text covers the fundamentals of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic and argumentative essay writing. It also includes important features that many other texts leave out extensive treatment of scientific reasoning, thorough coverage on the evaluation of evidence and credibility, and a chapter on psychological and social factors that can impede critical thinking. With a large and diverse collection of exercises, examples and text boxes, Thinking Outside the Box is the ideal critical thinking text for undergraduates.

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Lewis Vaughn is a coauthor of Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments;How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age; and The Case for Humanism: An Introduction. He is the former editor of Free Inquiry magazine and the former executive editor of the philosophy journalPhilo.

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