Critical Thinking: Step by Step

By Robert Cogan

This book is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking skills and the philosophical and factual bases of critical thinking.
Contents: I ANALYSIS OF REASONING. Short Simple Reasoning; Longer More Complex Discourse. EVALUATION OF REASONING. Basic Concepts of Evaluation; Degrees of Support Reasons Give to Conclusions; Critical Life Decisions: Complete Evaluation of Reasoning; Syllogistic Logic; Reasoning with Statements; Moderate to Fallacious Arguments. EVALUATING UNSUPPORTED BELIEFS. Justification, Paradigms, and Reasoning; Seeing, Reasoning and Scientific Justification; Justification in Law; Philosophical Dialectic and High Justification; Religion and Science; Pseudoscience as Unjustified Statements; The United States and the Global Corporate Economy. Appendices; Index; Bibliography; Exercises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761810676
• ISBN13: 9780761810674
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"