New Critical Thinking - An Empirically Informed Introduction

This highly innovative text aims to improve real-world critical thinking, incorporating insights from epistemology and philosophy of science and covering introductory logic in a way that emphasizes practical application.

List of contents

1. Introduction to Critical Thinking; Part I: Deduction; 2. Validity and Why It Matters; 3. Testing for Validity; 4. Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments; Part II: Induction; 5. Inductive Arguments; 6. Causal Inference; 7. Probability and Frequency; 8. Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited; Part III: Truth: Evaluating Premises; 9. Trust and the Media; 10. Science; Part IV: Argumentation; 11. Rhetoric; 12. Dialectic.

About the author

Jack Lyons is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow.
Barry Ward is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas.

Summary

This highly innovative text aims to improve real-world critical thinking, incorporating insights from epistemology and philosophy of science and covering introductory logic in a way that emphasizes practical application.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Lyons, Jack Ward Lyons, Lyons Jack, Barry Ward, Ward Barry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032317304
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231730-4
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge