Critical Thinking: A User's Manual
by Debra Jackson, Paul Newberry
2nd Edition
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781285196848 |
| eText ISBN | 9798214341217 |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning |
| Publishing Year | 2016 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
Critical Thinking: A User's Manual, 2nd Edition, is a textbook designed to help students incrementally develop foundational abilities in argument recognition, analysis, and evaluation. Step-by-step explanations and workbook-style features support active engagement with critical reading.
The volume introduces core logical concepts such as language, rhetoric, and distinguishing arguments from explanations. It then applies these methods to evaluating diverse reasoning forms, including categorical, truth-functional, analogical, and causal arguments, while addressing fallacy detection and argument construction.
To foster higher-order reasoning, the book introduces Bloom's Taxonomy early in the text. Integrated writing tasks and review activities provide opportunities to practice and synthesize concepts throughout the coursework.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Thinking Critically.
Chapter 2: Recognizing Arguments.
Chapter 3: Analyzing Arguments.
Chapter 4: Diagramming Arguments.
Chapter 5: Preparing to Evaluate Arguments.
Chapter 6: Evaluating Categorical Arguments.
Chapter 7: Evaluating Truth-Functional Arguments.
Chapter 8: Evaluating Analogical Arguments.
Chapter 9: Evaluating Inductive Generalizations.
Chapter 10: Evaluating Causal Arguments.
Chapter 11: Detecting Fallacies.
Chapter 12: Constructing Arguments.
Chapter 13: Evaluating Categorical Arguments Supplement.
Chapter 14: Evaluating Truth-Functional Arguments Supplement.
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