The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking
Noel Hendrickson author William Hawk author William O'Meara author Daniel Flage author St Kirk Amant author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:8th Feb '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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
Recommended . . . for those who want quick access to the formal rules often associated with critical thinking. * CHOICE, October 2008 *
ISBN: 9780742559790
Dimensions: 230mm x 155mm x 12mm
Weight: 261g
168 pages