(eBook PDF) Critical Thinking A Concise Guide 4th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
product details:
- ISBN-10 : 9780415820929
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415820929
- Author: Tracy Bowell
We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis and assessment of arguments. Through precise and accessible discussion, this book provides the tools to become a successful critical thinker, one who can act and believe in accordance with good reasons, and who can articulate and make explicit those reasons.
table of contents:
1. Introducing Arguments
2. Language and Rhetoric
3. Logic: Deductive Validity
4. Logic: Probability and Inductive Reasoning
5. The Practice of Argument-Reconstruction
6. Issues in Argument-Assessment
7. Pseudo-Reasoning
8. Truth, Knowledge and Belief.