ISBN: 9781138687486 - the new critical thinking: an empirically informed introduction (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Merely learning about logic and fallacious reasoning will not produce effective critical thinkers. Many intellectual errors derive from our reliance on intuitive heuristics. Also, properly assessing premises is crucial in the Internet age. This highly innovative textbook incorporates contemporary psychology, epistemology, and philosophy of science to address both problems, providing an experienced, but fresh, hands-on approach to traditional critical thinking material: assessing deductive and inductive arguments, reconstructing, identifying and diagramming arguments, and causal and probabilistic inference. It also treats real-world issues that are typically neglected.…