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Critical thinking : an introduction / Alec Fisher

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: 249 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521009847
  • 9780521009843
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.2 FIS 21
LOC classification:
  • BC177 .F568 2001
  • BF441 .F497 2001
Contents:
What is critical thinking and how to improve it -- Identifying reasons and conclusions: the language of reasoning -- Understanding reasoning: different patterns of reasoning -- Understanding reasoning: assumptions, context and a thinking map -- Clarifying and interpreting expressions and ideas -- The acceptability of reasons: including their credibility -- Judging the credibility of sources skilfully -- Evaluating inferences: deductive validity and other grounds -- Evaluating inferences: assumptions and other relevant arguments -- Reasoning about casual explanations -- Decision making: options, consequences, values and risks
Summary: The book meets the requirements of the OCR AS specification for Critical Thinking and is written by the Chief Examiner. In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts. Topics include: argument analysis, clarifying terms and interpreting ideas, skilful decision making and value judgements, and applying critical thinking to different subjects. Critical Thinking includes exercises that enable students to practise their critical thinking skills, as well as an appendix of examples and exercises for teachers to use and adapt. -- Publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index

What is critical thinking and how to improve it -- Identifying reasons and conclusions: the language of reasoning -- Understanding reasoning: different patterns of reasoning -- Understanding reasoning: assumptions, context and a thinking map -- Clarifying and interpreting expressions and ideas -- The acceptability of reasons: including their credibility -- Judging the credibility of sources skilfully -- Evaluating inferences: deductive validity and other grounds -- Evaluating inferences: assumptions and other relevant arguments -- Reasoning about casual explanations -- Decision making: options, consequences, values and risks

The book meets the requirements of the OCR AS specification for Critical Thinking and is written by the Chief Examiner. In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts. Topics include: argument analysis, clarifying terms and interpreting ideas, skilful decision making and value judgements, and applying critical thinking to different subjects. Critical Thinking includes exercises that enable students to practise their critical thinking skills, as well as an appendix of examples and exercises for teachers to use and adapt. -- Publisher description

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