Critical thinking : a concise guide / Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp.
By: Bowell, Tracy.
Contributor(s): Kemp, Gary.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Edition: 3rd ed.Description: x, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415471826 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415471831 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415471834 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780203874134 (ebook); 0203874137 (ebook).Subject(s): Critical thinking | Critical thinking -- Study and teaching | Language and logic | ReasoningDDC classification: 160 Other classification: 08.33Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Raffles University Reference | Reference | B809.2 .B69 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | RUI1200010 | |
Books | Raffles University Reference | Reference | B809.2 .B69 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | RUI1200011 |
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief.
Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy.