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Critical Thinking A Concise Guide

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ISBN-10: 0415820928

ISBN-13: 9780415820929

Edition: 4th 2015 (Revised)

Authors: Tracy Bowell, Gary Kemp

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We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us - to inuence our beliefs and actions - by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identication, analysis and assessment of arguments. Through precise and accessible discussion, this book provides the tools to become a successful critical thinker, one who can act and believe in accordance with good reasons, and who can articulate and make explicit those reasons. Key topics discussed include: core concepts in argumentation how language can serve to obscure or conceal the real content of arguments; how to…    
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Book details

List price: $33.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/4/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Christopher Belshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Staff Tutor with the Open University. He works mainly at the theoretical end of applied ethics. He is the author of Ideas (Open University 1998), Environmental Philosophy (Acumen, 2001) and 10 Good Questions About Life and Death (Blackwell, 2005). Another book, Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death, is forthcoming.Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Glasgow. He works in the philosophy of logic and language, on Frege, Russell, Quine and Davidson, and on aesthetics and philosophical themes in literature. He is the author of Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed (2005) and, with Tracy…