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A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, 2nd Edition
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September 2014
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David A. Hunter
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"…a well-structured path of increasing difficulty, disseminated by useful examples and study cases taken from a variety of disciplines as well as from common situations." Zentralblatt MATH
A thoroughly updated introduction to the concepts, methods, and standards of critical thinking, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is a unique presentation of the formal strategies used when thinking through reasons and arguments in many areas of expertise. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, the book offers a broad conception of critical thinking and explores the practical relevance to conducting research across business, education, and the biological sciences.
Applying rigor when necessary, the Second Edition maintains an informal approach to the fundamental core concepts of critical thinking. With practical strategies for defining, analyzing, and evaluating reasons and arguments, the book illustrates how the concept of an argument extends beyond philosophical roots into experimentation, testing, measurement, and policy development and assessment. Featuring plenty of updated exercises for a wide range of subject areas, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition also includes:
- Numerous real-world examples from many fields of research, which reflect the applicability of critical thinking in everyday life
- New topical coverage, including the nature of reasons, assertion and supposing, narrow and broad definitions, circumstantial reasons, and reasoning about causal claims
- Selected answers intended to provide readers with instantaneous feedback on the exercises to support and extend the lessons
A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an appropriate reference for anyone with a general interest in critical thinking skills.
David A. Hunter, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University, Canada. He has published numerous journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and critical thinking.
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1 THE NATURE AND VALUE OF CRITICAL THINKING
This book is a practical guide to critical thinking. It might seem unnecessary to be reading a guide to something you do all the time and are probably already pretty good at. When I tell people that I am writing a book on critical thinking they sometimes tell me that they consider themselves to be very good critical thinkers. At the very least, they say that they consider critical thinking to be very important. I am sure that they are right on both counts. We think critically a good bit of the time, and on the whole we do it pretty well. Still, I think there is always something to learn from thinking hard about what one is already good at.
In this chapter, we will explore the nature and value of critical thinking. We will ask what critical thinking is and how it differs from other kinds of thinking. We will explore what it means to think critically; what makes that kind of thinking critical . As part of this, we will consider whether critical thinking varies from one discipline to the next. Is critical thinking in geology different from critical thinking in design or in humanities? We will see that while the concepts, methods, and standards may differ from one discipline to the next, there is a basic essence or core of critical thinking that remains the same across all disciplines. Whether one is doing chemistry, design, astrology, or philosophy, there are common standards that you should strive to maintain, and practical strategies ...
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A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe 2nd Edition
A thoroughly updated introduction to the concepts, methods, and standards of critical thinking, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is a unique presentation of the formal strategies used when thinking through reasons and arguments in many areas of expertise. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, the book offers a broad conception of critical thinking and explores the practical relevance to conducting research across fields such as, business, education, and the biological sciences.
- Numerous real-world examples from many fields of research, which reflect the applicability of critical thinking in everyday life
- New topical coverage, including the nature of reasons, assertion and supposing, narrow and broad definitions, circumstantial reasons, and reasoning about causal claims
- Selected answers to various exercises to provide readers with instantaneous feedback to support and extend the lessons
A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an appropriate reference for anyone with a general interest in critical thinking skills.
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By Greg R. Haskins [email protected] August 15, 2006 Acknowledgment: Much of this paper was based on two sources, both by Robert Todd Carroll, Ph.D: 1) Becoming a Critical Thinker - A Guide for the New Millennium, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000; and 2) The Skeptic's Dictionary, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.Please refer to these excellent references, especially the first
A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe. David Hunter. Published 15 June 2009. Philosophy. Preface. Note to Instructors. Chapter 1: The Nature and Value of Critical Thinking. 1.1 The Nature of Critical Thinking. Exercise 1.1. 1.2 Critical Thinking and Knowledge.
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