The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims 6th Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190852719,0190852712, 9780190852733, 0190852739

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190852739
• ISBN-13: 9780190852733
• Author: Lewis Vaughn

The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Sixth Edition, provides the broadest range of tools to show students how critical thinking applies in their lives and the world around them. It explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay writing while also incorporating important topics that most other texts leave out, such as “inference to the best explanation,” scientific reasoning, evidence and authority, visual reasoning, and obstacles to critical thinking.

Table contents:

PART ONE: BASICS

CHAPTER 1: The Power of Critical Thinking

CHAPTER 2: Obstacles to Critical Thinking

CHAPTER 3: Making Sense of Arguments

PART TWO: REASONS

CHAPTER 4: Reasons for Belief and Doubt

CHAPTER 5: Fallacies and Persuaders

PART THREE: ARGUMENTS

CHAPTER 6: Deductive Reasoning: Propositional Logic

CHAPTER 7: Deductive Reasoning: Categorical Logic

CHAPTER 8: Inductive Reasoning

PART FOUR: EXPLANATIONS

CHAPTER 9: Inference to the Best Explanation

CHAPTER 10: Judging Scientific Theories

CHAPTER 11: Critical Thinking in Morality and the Law

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