Invitation to Critical Thinking

Name: Invitation to Critical Thinking
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ISBN: 9780495103714

ISBN-10: 0495103713

ISBN-13: 9780495103714

Edition: 6th 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Joel Rudinow, Vincent E. Barry

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INVITATION TO CRITICAL THINKING teaches you how to recognize, analyze, evaluate, and compose arguments that can be used as tools of rational persuasion. Fostering discussions of critical thinking and its application in mass media, effective writing, and problem solving, this book will introduce you to a wide variety of strategies for identifying and analyzing arguments in the world around you. In addition, the robust companion website offers an array of online tools that offer an unprecedented variety of interactive exercises that will not only help you remember important concepts, but apply them as well.

Book details

List price: $216.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 4/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.430




The Basics



Critical Thinking


The Importance of Critical Thinking


What Is Critical Thinking?


Obstacles to Critical Thinking


Looking Ahead: Issues and Disputes



Language


What Is Language?


Functions of Language


Meaning in Language


Definitions



Argument



Argument Identification


Argument Identification


Argument Analysis



Argument Analysis I: Representing Argument Structure


The Goal of Argument Analysis


Elementary Procedures


Intermediate Challenges



Argument Analysis II: Paraphrasing Arguments


Paraphrasing


Advanced Applications


Practice, Practice, and More Practice



Deductive Reasoning



Evaluating Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic


Deductive and Inductive Reasoning


Argument Form


Categorical Logic



Evaluating Deductive Arguments II: Truth Functional Logic


Truth Functional Analysis of Logical Operators


Argument Forms


Testing for Validity with Truth Tables



Inductive Reasoning



Evaluating Inductive Arguments I: Generalization and Analogy


Assessing Inductive Strength


Reasoning by Analogy



Evaluating Inductive Arguments II: Hypothetical Reasoning and Burden of Proof


Presumption and the ï¿½Burden of Proofï¿½


Reasoning Hypothetically



Evaluating Whole Arguments



Evaluating Premises: Self-evidence, Consistency, Indirect Proof


Necessary Truths


Contingent Claims


Beyond ï¿½Self-Evidenceï¿½



Informal Fallacies I: Language, Relevance, Authority


Fallacies of Language


Fallacies of Relevance


Fallacious Appeals to Authority



Informal Fallacies II: Assumptions and Induction


Fallacious Assumptions


Fallacies of Induction


A Final Word of Caution



Making Your Case: Argumentative Composition


The Issue Statement


Research and the Media


The Thesis Statement


Argument Design