Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking

By Noel Hendrickson, William Hawk, Kirk St. Amant

Book Overview

Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning.

The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues:
- Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes.
-General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments.
-Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony.
-Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations.
-A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables.
-Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty.
-A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities.
-An extended discussion of informal fallacies.
-An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742559793
• ISBN13: 9780742559790
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"