The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking Paperback / softback
by Noel Hendrickson, Kirk Amant, William Hawk, William O'Meara, Daniel Flage
Part of the Elements of Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning.
The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues: · Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes · General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments· Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony · Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations· A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables · Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty· A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities · An extended discussion of informal fallacies· An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:08/02/2008
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- ISBN:9780742559790
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:08/02/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780742559790
