The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking (Paperback)

Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning. The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues: * Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes * General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments * Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony * Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations * A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables * Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty * A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities * An extended discussion of informal fallacies * An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Elements of Philosophy
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	February 2008
Authors:	Noel Hendrickson • Kirk Amant • William Hawk • William O'Meara • Daniel Flage
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-5979-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-5979-3
Barcode:	9780742559790

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