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Publication
Port Washington, N.Y. : Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN
0882840207 / 9780882840208
Description
This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.
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CONTENTS:
Who are you?
What is thinking?
What is truth?
What does it mean to know?
What good are your opinions?
The basic problem: "mine is better"
Resistance to change
The urge to conform
The need to save face
Stereotypes
Faulty common sense
Oversimplifications
Hasty conclusions
Unwarranted assumptions
The problems in combination
Knowing yourself
Being observant
Clarifying the issue
Conducting inquiry
Interpreting evidence
Analyzing a position
Forming judgments.
Who are you?
What is thinking?
What is truth?
What does it mean to know?
What good are your opinions?
The basic problem: "mine is better"
Resistance to change
The urge to conform
The need to save face
Stereotypes
Faulty common sense
Oversimplifications
Hasty conclusions
Unwarranted assumptions
The problems in combination
Knowing yourself
Being observant
Clarifying the issue
Conducting inquiry
Interpreting evidence
Analyzing a position
Forming judgments.