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Critical Thinking An Introduction to Reasoning Well

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ISBN-10: 0826439519

ISBN-13: 9780826439512

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert Arp, Jamie Carlin Watson

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Designed for effective classroom use, this book equips students to think critically, reason and argue well.
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Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 4/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Robert Arp has authored numerous articles and book chapters in ontology (in the information science sense), philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, modern philosophy, and popular culture. He is the author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (MIT Press, 2008). He is also coauthor of Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology (MIT Press, in preparation) and Reasoning Well: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and is coeditor of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology.

Preface
The Basics of Good Reasoning
The Basic Tools of Reasoning
Evaluating Arguments
Deductive Reasoning
Categorical Logic
Basic Propositional Logic
Truth Tables
Rules of Inference
Inductive Reasoning
Probability and Induction
Generalization, Analogy, and Causation
Inference to the Best Explanation
Informal Fallacies
Graduate School Entrance Exams
Reasoning on the GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT
Index