Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society , 2/e
Wanda Teays,
Mount St. Mary's College
ISBN: 0767425626 Copyright year: 2003
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Acquiring Critical Thinking Skills
1. Out of the Fog: The Pathway to Critical Thinking
2. Sharpening Our Tools: The Basics of Argument
3. Out of the Silence: The Power of Language
4. Fallacies, Fallacies: Steering Clear of Argumentative Quicksand
5. Analysis: The Heart of Critical Thinking
6. The Logic Machine: Deductive & Inductive Reasoning PART TWO: Going Out into the World
7. The Social Dimension
8. Desire and Illusion: Analyzing Advertising
9. Voices of the Community: The News Media
10. The Seductive Screen: Film and TV
11. Web Sight: Critical Thinking and the Internet
12. Specialized Tools: Problem Solving, Question Techniques, and Writing Skills PART THREE: The Logic Connection
13. The Big 3 of Induction: Analogies, Causal Reasoning, and Statistical Arguments
14. Handling Claims, Drawing Inferences
15. Syllogisms
16. Patterns of Deductive Reasoning: Rules of Inference
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