Critical thinking: a concise guide
Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 294 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780415471824 0415471826 9780415471831 0415471834 9780203874134 0203874137 |
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Autor: Bowell, Tracy
Jahr: 2010
CONTENTS
Preface to the third edition ix
INTRODUCTION AND PREVIEW l
1 INTRODUCING ARGUMENTS 3
BEGINNING TO THINK CRITICALLY: RECOGNISING ARGUMENTS 6
ASPECTS OF MEANING 10
STANDARD FORM 12
IDENTIFYING CONCLUSIONS AND PREMISES 14
ARGUMENTS AND EXPLANATIONS 20
INTERMEDIATE CONCLUSIONS 22
CHAPTER SUMMARY 23
EXERCISES 24
2 LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC 27
LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA 27
RHETORICAL PLOYS 40
CHAPTER SUMMARY 50
EXERCISES 51
vi ? contents
3 LOGIC: DEDUCTIVE VALIDITY 55
THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY 56
TRUTH 60
DEDUCTIVE VALIDITY 62
PRESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS VS DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS 67
CONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS 68
THE ANTECEDENT AND CONSEQUENT OF A CONDITIONAL 71
ARGUMENT TREES 73
DEDUCTIVE SOUNDNESS 76
THE CONNECTION TO FORMAL LOGIC 78
CHAPTER SUMMARY 81
EXERCISES 82
4 LOGIC: INDUCTIVE FORCE 89
INDUCTIVE FORCE 90
ALL , MOST AND SOME 98
SOFT GENERALISATIONS: A REMINDER 99
INDUCTIVE SOUNDNESS 100
PROBABILITY IN THE PREMISES 100
ARGUMENTS WITH MULTIPLE PROBABILISTIC PREMISES 101
INDUCTIVE FORCE IN EXTENDED ARGUMENTS 104
CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY IN THE CONCLUSION 105
EVIDENCE 105
INDUCTIVE INFERENCES 107
A PROGRAMME FOR ASSESSMENT 112
CHAPTER SUMMARY 113
EXERCISES 114
contents ? vii
5 THE PRACTICE OF ARGUMENT-RECONSTRUCTION 118
EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL 119
DEFUSING THE RHETORIC 122
LOGICAL STREAMLINING 123
IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT 125
CONNECTING PREMISES 132
COVERING GENERALISATIONS 133
RELEVANCE 135
AMBIGUITY AND VAGUENESS 138
MORE ON GENERALISATIONS 144
PRACTICAL REASONING 147
BALANCING COSTS, BENEFITS AND PROBABILITIES 150
EXPLANATIONS AS CONCLUSIONS 153
CAUSAL GENERALISATIONS 156
A SHORT-CUT 158
CHAPTER SUMMARY 159
EXERCISES 160
6 ISSUES IN ARGUMENT-ASSESSMENT 169
RATIONAL PERSUASIVENESS 169
SOME STRATEGIES FOR LOGICAL ASSESSMENT 177
REFUTATION BY COUNTEREXAMPLE 180
ENGAGING WITH THE ARGUMENT I: AVOIDING THE WHO IS TO
SAY? CRITICISM 183
ENGAGING WITH THE ARGUMENT II: DON T MERELY LABEL THE
POSITION 184
ARGUMENT COMMENTARY 185
COMPLETE EXAMPLES 188
COMMENTARY ON THE COMMENTARY 195
viii ? contents
CHAPTER SUMMARY 196
EXERCISES 197
7 PSEUDO-REASONING 202
FALLACIES 202
FAULTY ARGUMENT TECHNIQUES 228
TOO MUCH MATHS! 235
CHAPTER SUMMARY 237
EXERCISES 239
8 TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF 242
TRUTH AND RELATIVITY 243
TRUE FOR ME, TRUE FOR YOU 248
TRUTH, VALUE AND MORALITY 251
THEORIES 252
BELIEF, JUSTIFICATION AND TRUTH 253
JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT ARGUMENTS 255
KNOWLEDGE 256
JUSTIFICATION FAILURE 257
KNOWLEDGE AND RATIONAL PERSUASIVENESS 259
PHILOSOPHICAL DIRECTIONS 261
CHAPTER SUMMARY 264
EXERCISES 264
Glossary 266
Answers and hints to selected exercises 275
Index 291
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