Jack Lyons, Barry Ward

The New Critical Thinking (eBook, ePUB)

An Empirically Informed Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003861522
• Artikelnr.: 70306138

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.