Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 364
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Trim: 7½ x 9¼
978-0-8476-9602-4 • Paperback • October 1999 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
Jon Stratton has taught critical thinking, informal logic, and symbolic logic at Walla Walla Community College in Washington State for over twenty-five years.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Thinking, the Body, the Brain, and Language
Chapter 3 A Closer Look at Critical Thinking
Part 4 Verbal Thinking
Chapter 5 The Nature of Language and the Standards of Critical Thinking
Chapter 6 Attitudinal Standards and Empathy
Part 7 Logical Thinking
Chapter 8 Elements of Organization of Argument
Chapter 9 Evaluating Arguments
Chapter 10 Fallacies and the Eight Steps of Argument Evaluation
Part 11 Verbal and Logical Thinking
Chapter 12 Evidence
Chapter 13 Application: The Format
Part 14 Verbal, Logical, and Intuitive Thinking
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking in the Home, at Work, and in the Community
Chapter 16 Appendix
Chapter 17 Suggested Reading
Chapter 18 Index
Chapter 19 About the Author
Finally, a text that is not only about critical reasoning but is itself an excellent piece of philosophical thinking in its own right. We have needed a book like this for a long time. . . . It meets students where they are and takes them to a fresh and interesting engagement with the world of thinking.
— Donn Welton, SUNY, Stony Brook
Jon Stratton's textbook is a welcome, well-written approach to the study of critical thinking. It analyzes the character of arguments comprehensively—not only by examining standards for good reasoning, but by looking at the underlying communicative and emotional structure of discourse.
— James Liszka, Ph.D., University of Alaska, Anchorage
—A large variety of exercises is offered—some exercises are suitable for written assignments, others are for class discussion.
—An Instructor's Manual provides
—pedagogical features
—suggested responses to all text questions
—twenty-five true/false questions and twenty-five multiple choice questions, with answers, for each chapter to be used for in-class testing