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William Hughes's Critical Thinking, revised and updated by Jonathan Lavery, is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments. Hughes and Lavery give a thorough treatment of such traditional topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, the importance of inference, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to assess what is or is not relevant to an argument. The authors also...
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The late William Hughes was Professor and Chair in the Philosophy Department at the University of Guelph. Jonathan Lavery is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford.
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"Critical Thinking works very well indeed with first-year students. As a means of improving their thinking it is more successful than anything I've tried―and when their thinking improves, their writing improves. The exercises are excellent ... you can see the lights turn on as the students work through them. All in all, Hughes's Critical Thinking is a text I recommend highly." (Cleo Boyd)
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- PublisherBroadview Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 155111884X
- ISBN 13 9781551118840
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number5
- Number of pages392
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