(eBook PDF) Think with Socrates An Introduction to Critical Thinking

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199331863
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199331864
• Author: Paul Herrick

Brief yet comprehensive, Think with Socrates: An Introduction to Critical Thinking uses the methods, ideas, and life of Socrates as a model for critical thinking. It offers a more philosophical, historical, and accessible introduction than longer textbooks while still addressing all of the key topics in logic and argumentation. Applying critical thinking to the Internet, mass media, advertising, personal experience, expert authority, the evaluation of sources, writing argumentative essays, and forming a worldview, Think with Socrates resonates with today’s students and teaches them how to apply critical thinking in the real world. At the same time, it covers the ancient intellectual roots and history of the field, placing critical thinking in its larger context to help students appreciate its perennial value.

Author Paul Herrick incorporates original sources from newspapers, a variety of media, and philosophical writing, along with engaging “interludes” featuring selections from Plato’s dialogues. A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/herrick offers resources for students and instructors.

Table of contents:

Unit 1. What Is Critical Thinking?

Chapter 1. Socrates Part 1: Life and Method

Appendix. An Excerpt from The Clouds

Chapter 2. Socrates Part 2: Life and Death

Chapter 3. On Socrates’s Two Favorite Questions

Interlude: Socrates at Work

Part 1. The Euthyphro

Part 2. The Apology

Unit 2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking

Chapter 4. Cognitive Biases

Appendix. Critical Thinking in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

Chapter 5. Relativism and Skepticism

Unit 3. Build a Solid Knowledge Base

Chapter 6. Reason and the Senses

Chapter 7. Personal Experience, Testimony, and Expert Authority

Chapter 8. Watch Out for Logical Fallacies

Interlude: Critical Thinking and 

Freedom

Chapter 9. The Internet, News Media, and Advertising

Unit 4. Criteria for Correct Reasoning

Chapter 10. Deduction and Induction: A Closer Look

Chapter 11. Explorations in Inductive Reasoning: The Logic of Science

Appendix. Elementary Probability Theory

Chapter 12. Explorations in Deductive Reasoning: Categorical Logic

Appendix 1. Testing Syllogisms Using Rules
Appendix 2. How an Idea in Logic Led to the Digital Computer and Transformed the World
Unit 5. Moral Reasoning, Worldviews, and the Examined Life

Chapter 13. Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning

Chapter 14. Critical Thinking, Worldviews, and the Examined Life

Epilogue
Answers to Selected Exercises
Glossary
Index

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