Richard L Epstein & Michael Rooney 
Critical Thinking 5th edition 

This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach. Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day. More than 1, 000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives. Essay writing lessons and visual writing lessons, using the cast of characters, teach students that first comes clear thinking and then comes clear writing. A complete and comprehensive Instructor’s Manual makes the text easy to teach and grade. New to this edition: chapters on explanations and reasoning in the sciences.
• Over 1, 000 examples and exercises from daily life.
• A dozen original writing lessons fully integrated with the text.
• Unique cartoon writing lessons help students apply critical thinking to non-verbal situations.

Table des matières

1 Critical Thinking?
Writing Lesson 1
2 What Are We Arguing About?
Writing Lesson 2
3 What Is a Good Argument?
Writing Lesson 3
Cartoon Writing Lesson A
4 Is That True?
Writing Lesson 4
5 Repairing Arguments
Writing Lesson 5
Cartoon Writing Lesson B
6 Counterarguments
Writing Lesson 6
Review Chapters 1–6
7 Compound Claims
Writing Lesson 7
Cartoon Writing Lesson C
8 General Claims
Writing Lesson 8
Review Chapters 7 and 8
9 Concealed Claims
10 Too Much Emotion
11 Fallacies
Writing Lesson 9
Cartoon Writing Lesson D
Short Arguments for Analysis
Analyzing Complex Arguments
12 Reasoning by Analogy
Writing Lesson 10
13 Numbers?
14 Generalizing
15 Cause and Effect
Cartoon Writing Lesson E
Review Chapters 12-15
16 Explanations
17 Risk
18 Making Decisions
Composing Good Arguments
Writing Lesson 11
Your Cartoon Writing Lesson
More Cartoon Writing Lessons
A Science Journal Article
1S Getting Started in Science
2S Definitions in Science
3S Experiments
4S What Can Go Wrong with Experiments?
Science Arguments for Analysis
5S Models and Theories
6S Explanations in Science
7S Ways of Knowing
Evaluating Reasoning: A Summary
Glossary
Answers to Selected Exercises
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Richard L Epstein received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a post-doctoral fellow in mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. a Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He is the author of the series of books ‘Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well’, and is now the Head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.