Logic and Critical Reasoning
Author | : Anand Vaidya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780757588068 |
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Author | : Anand Vaidya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780757588068 |
Author | : Bradley Harris Dowden |
Publisher | : Bradley Dowden |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Critical thinking |
ISBN | : 9780534176884 |
This book is designed to engage students' interest and promote their writing abilities while teaching them to think critically and creatively. Dowden takes an activist stance on critical thinking, asking students to create and revise arguments rather than simply recognizing and criticizing them. His book emphasizes inductive reasoning and the analysis of individual claims in the beginning, leaving deductive arguments for consideration later in the course.
Author | : Marianne Talbot |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781512066029 |
This book will help you to reason critically; to recognise, analyse and evaluate arguments and to classify them as inductive or deductive. It will introduce you to fallacies (bad arguments that look like good arguments) and, in two optional chapters, to the rudiments of formalisation. Linked to Marianne Talbot's hugely successful Critical Reasoning podcasts (downloaded 4 million times from iTunesU!), and full of interactive exercises and quizzes, the book was written to satisfy demand from fans of the podcasts. Marianne is the Director of Studies in Philosophy at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education.
Author | : T. Ryan Byerly |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493410806 |
This robust, clear, and well-researched textbook for classes in logic introduces students to both formal logic and to the virtues of intellectual inquiry. Part 1 challenges students to develop the analytical skills of deductive and inductive reasoning, showing them how to identify and evaluate arguments. Part 2 helps students develop the intellectual virtues of the wise inquirer. The book includes helpful pedagogical features such as practice exercises and a concluding summary with definitions of key concepts for each chapter. Resources for professors and students are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.
Author | : Robert Boyd |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780130812216 |
Maintaining that the ultimate goal of critical reasoning is to make informed, educated decisions, this text presents a process that enables the reader to apply proper reasoning techniques in a practical fashion. This book is balanced between three activities: identification of arguments, evaluation of arguments using inductive reasoning, and evaluation of arguments using deductive reasoning. For computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, or anyone who is interested in using the practical applications of logic to evaluate their own writing and arguments as well as the writing and arguments of others.
Author | : David Kelley |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780393740080 |
Students learn logic by practicing it by working through problems, analyzing existing arguments, and constructing their own arguments in plain language and symbolic notation. The Art of Reasoning not only introduces the principles of critical thinking and logic in a clear, accessible, and logical manner thus practicing what it preaches but it also provides ample opportunity for students to hone their skills and master course content.
Author | : Philip Turetzky |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 146040646X |
The Elements of Arguments introduces such central critical thinking topics as informal fallacies, the difference between validity and truth, basic formal propositional logic, and how to extract arguments from texts. Turetzky aims to prevent common confusions by clearly explaining a number of important distinctions, including propositions vs. propositional attitudes, propositions vs. states of affairs, and logic vs. rhetoric vs. psychology. Exercises are provided throughout, including numerous informal arguments that can be assessed using the skills and strategies presented within the text.
Author | : David Hitchcock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319535625 |
This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation. Among other things, the author:• develops an account of “material consequence” that permits evaluation of inferences without problematic postulation of unstated premises.• updates his recursive definition of argument that accommodates chaining and embedding of arguments and allows any type of illocutionary act to be a conclusion. • advances a general theory of relevance.• provides comprehensive frameworks for evaluating inferences in reasoning by analogy, means-end reasoning, and appeals to considerations or criteria.• argues that none of the forms of arguing ad hominem is a fallacy.• describes proven methods of teaching critical thinking effectively.
Author | : Anita Harnadek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Critical thinking |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Arp |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472595696 |
'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right? For anyone tackling philosophical logic and critical thinking for the first time, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well provides a practical guide to the skills required to think critically. From the basics of good reasoning to the difference between claims, evidence and arguments, Robert Arp and Jamie Carlin Watson cover the topics found in an introductory course. Now revised and fully updated, this Second Edition features a glossary, chapter summaries, more student-friendly exercises, study questions, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. Topics include: the structure, formation, analysis and recognition of arguments deductive validity and soundness inductive strength and cogency inference to the best explanation truth tables tools for argument assessment informal and formal fallacies With real life examples, advice on graduate school entrance exams and an expanded companion website packed with additional exercises, an answer key and help with real life examples, this easy-to-follow introduction is a complete beginner's tool set to good reasoning, analyzing and arguing. Ideal for students in basic reasoning courses and students preparing for graduate school.