A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking - Softcover

Morrow, David R.; Weston, Anthony

 
9781603845496: A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1603845496 ISBN 13: 9781603845496
Verlag: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A Workbook for Arguments builds on Anthony Weston's Rulebook for Arguments to provide a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Workbook includes:
  • The entire text of Rulebook, supplemented with extensive further explanations and exercises.
  • Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, videos, and other sources.
  • Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules to the examples in the homework exercises.
  • Suggestions for further practice, outlining activities that students can do by themselves or with classmates to improve their skills.
  • Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments designed to engage students.
  • An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vital skill in constructing complex and multi-step arguments and evaluating them.
  • Model answers to odd-numbered problems, including commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of selected sample answers and further discussion of some of the substantive intellectual, philosophical, or ethical issues they raise.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David R. Morrow is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Anthony Weston is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Elon University.

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Verlag
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1603845496
ISBN 13 
9781603845496
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
465
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