How Can We Make Sense of It All?
In a hyperconnected digital world buzzing with both information and disinformation, fact and spin, critical thinking has never been more challenging or important. This popular, learner-friendly text gives today's students the critical reasoning tools they need to survive and thrive-in school, in their careers, and in life. It covers all the basics of critical thinking, using class-tested real-world examples and a proven step-by-step approach. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in an exceptionally versatile text.
New to the Sixth Edition
The chapter on Thinking Critically about the Media has been reorganized and thoroughly rewritten to take account of rapid, seismic changes in social media, advertising, and the news media.
Over a dozen new readings have been added and many older readings have been replaced.
Several chapters have been streamlined, and there is expanded coverage of fallacies and impediments to critical thinking.
New and updated examples and exercises have been added throughout the text.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: Recognizing Arguments
Chapter 3: Basic Logical ConceptsChapter 4: Language
Chapter 5: Logical Fallacies--1Chapter 6: Logical Fallacies--2
Chapter 7: Analyzing Arguments
Chapter 8: Evaluating Arguments and Truth Claims
Chapter 9: A Little Categorical Logic
Chapter 10: A Little Propositional Logic
Chapter 11: Inductive Reasoning
Chapter 12: Finding, Evaluating and Using Sources
Chapter 13: Writing Argumentative Essays
Chapter 14: Thinking Critically about the Media
Chapter 15: Science and Pseudoscience
Appendix: The Six Habits of Effective Problem-SolversAnswers to Selected Exercises