Re-Thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking

by Kerry S. Walters

For two decades, colleges and universities have regularly offered, and in some cases required, courses in thinking skills. Such courses generally have focused on training students in the basics of informal and formal logic, the assumption being that good thinking is logical thinking, and that instruction in critical or "good" thinking consequently should emphasize logical procedures. This "logistic" assumption is clearly reflected in both critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791420965
• ISBN13: 9780791420966
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"