CLEAR THINKING IN A BLURRY WOR

Name: CLEAR THINKING IN A BLURRY WOR
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ISBN: 9780176251949

ISBN-10: 0176251944

ISBN-13: 9780176251949

Edition: 1st

Authors: KENYON

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A ground-up Canadian text, Clear Thinking in a Blurry World offers a new way of examining the discipline of critical thinking. This text focuses on critical thinking as it applies to philosophy and cognition, rather than the typical 'formal logic lite' approach.Clear Thinking in a Blurry World includes many practical sections that are not commonly found in books in this market—material on numeracy and statistical analysis. Through this text, students will examine sources of information—from social exchanges, to science, to mainstream media—in detail, as well as the cognitive and social psychology of biases. This text aims directly at teaching, or beginning to teach, a broad set of…

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List price: $39.50
Edition: 1st
Publisher: NELSON
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Weight: 1.606



Preface


Introduction: Roadmap to this Book



The Parts of Public Thinking: Deductive Argument



Evidence Adds Up



Language, Non-Language, and Argument



Fallacies: When Arguments Turn Bad



Critical Thinking about Numbers



Probability and Statistics: Reasoning from Incomplete Information



Biases Within Reason



The More We Get Together: Social Cognition and the Flow of Information



Critical Reasoning about Science: Cases and Lessons



The Mainstream Media as a Source of Information



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