{"product_id":"critical-thinking-a-concise-guide-9780415820929","title":"Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tracy Bowell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are frequently confronted with \u003ci\u003earguments\u003c\/i\u003e. Arguments are attempts to persuade us â to influence our beliefs and actions â by giving us reasons to believe this or that. \u003ci\u003eCritical Thinking: A Concise Guide\u003c\/i\u003e will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis and assessment of arguments. Through precise and accessible discussion, this book provides the tools to become a successful critical thinker, one who can act and believe in accordance with good reasons, and who can articulate and make explicit those reasons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey topics discussed include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ecore concepts in argumentation \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow language can serve to obscure or conceal the real content of arguments; how to distinguish argumentation from rhetoric\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as âtruthâ, âknowledgeâ and âopinionâ\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow to distinguish good reasoning from bad in terms of deductive validly and induction.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout, with a new introduction for each chapter and up-to-date topical examples. Particular revisions include: practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; the connection to formal logic and the logic of probability; conditionals; ambiguity; vagueness; slippery slope arguments; and arguments by analogy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dynamic Routledge \u003ci\u003eCritical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e companion website provides thoroughly updated resources for both instructors and students including new examples and case studies, flashcards, sample questions, practice questions and answers, student activities and a testbank of questions for use in the classroom. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46266936721559,"sku":"9780415820929","price":4001.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415820929.webp?v=1769301222","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/critical-thinking-a-concise-guide-9780415820929","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}