Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical ThinkingMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005 - 516 páginas In an era of information overload, our need to learn how to critically evaluate the growing flood of information has never been greater. Critical Reflection showcases the role of reason in a world saturated by media-enhanced persuasion and complex scientific and technological jargon.Drawing from the classic philosophical texts, this engaging textbook on the art of analyzing arguments is also relevant to today's undergraduates in its use of real-life examples and exercises drawn mainly from media and politics. Malcolm Murray and Nebojsa Kujundzic cover the standard subjects in a one-semester course on critical thinking, offering ways to analyze arguments |
Conteúdo
Argument Components | 16 |
Mapping an Argument | 59 |
Language Use | 73 |
Definitions | 107 |
Acceptability Conditions | 145 |
Translation | 179 |
Validity | 201 |
Validity | 264 |
Causation and Probability | 307 |
Science | 340 |
Arguments by Analogy | 365 |
Fallacies | 397 |
Answers to Select Questions | 451 |
Vegetarianism and Moral Duty | 501 |
Bibliography | 507 |
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Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking Malcolm Murray,Nebojsa Kujundzic Visualização parcial - 2005 |
Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking Robert Malcolm Murray,Nebojsa Kujundzic Visualização parcial - 2005 |
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