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Informationen zum Autor Elliot D. Cohen, PhD, is professor and chair of the department of humanities at Indian River State College, adjunct professor of clinical ethics at the Florida State University College of Medicine, and director of the Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation Institute. Author of numerous books and articles, he is a principal founder of philosophical counseling in the United States, and inventor of logic-based therapy. He writes a blog for Psychology Today, and has been quoted in major media venues, including New York Times Magazine. Klappentext From alcohol and drug addiction to rage on national highways and in airports, many human beings have kept themselves in perpetual turmoil and despair. From encroachment on individual rights and liberties to wars of attrition and mass genocide, human history has continually repeated itself due to a failure to see the light. Containing numerous skill-building exercises, Critical Thinking Unleashed seeks to cultivate the reasoning skills required to overcome such destructive human tendencies and to live meaningful and productive lives in a democratic society. In contrast to other treatments of practical reasoning, Elliot D. Cohen not only teaches students how to identify and refute irrational premises_he also teaches them how to construct rational antidotes to combat the personal, social, and political obstacles they confront in everyday life. Moreover, Cohen encourages students to use the theories and ideas embodied in the history of philosophy in order to construct these rational guides, drawing examples from many contemporary sources. Demonstrating the practical relevance and import of many historically significant philosophers (e.g. Socrates, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hume, Kant, Mill, Sartre, and Nietzsche), the book presents a practical, non-technical, and comprehensive approach to critical thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Table of Contents 2 Preface to the Student Chapter 3 Introduction: Free Thinking Part 4 I. Kinds of Reasoning Chapter 5 1. The Nuts and Bolts of Reasoning Part 6 Deduction Chapter 7 2. Deductive Reasoning Chapter 8 3. Hypothetical Syllogisms Chapter 9 4. Disjunctive Syllogisms Chapter 10 5. Truth-Functional Logic Chapter 11 6. Categorical Statements Chapter 12 7. Immediate Deductions Chapter 13 8. Categorical Syllogisms Part 14 Induction Chapter 15 9. Generalization Chapter 16 10. Prediction Chapter 17 11. Testimonials Chapter 18 12. Hypothesis Chapter 19 13. Causation Part 20 Behavioral and Emotional Reasoning Chapter 21 14. Behavioral Reasoning Chapter 22 15. Refutation in Practical Reasoning Chapter 23 16. Emotional Reasoning Part 24 II. Informal Fallacies Part 25 Fallacies that Promote Self-Destructive Emotions Chapter 26 17. Inferences from "Must," "Awful," and "Can't" Chapter 27 18. Damning Thoughts and Dutiful Worrying Part 28 Fallacies that Impede Successful Interpersonal Relations Chapter 29 19. Bandwagon Arguments Chapter 30 20. Emotional Appeals Chapter 31 21. Irrelevant Appeals Chapter 32 22. Sophistical Arguments Chapter 33 Appendix: Venn Diagrams 34 Index...
