Critical Thinking: A User's Manual - Softcover

Jackson, Debra; Newberry, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285196848 ISBN 13: 9781285196848

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2015

Synopsis

CRITICAL THINKING: A USER'S MANUAL offers an innovative skill-based approach to critical thinking that provides step-by-step tools for examining arguments. Users build a complete skill set by recognizing, analyzing, diagramming, and evaluating arguments. Later chapters encourage application of the basic skills to categorical, truth-functional, analogical and inductive, and causal arguments as well as fallacies. Exercises throughout the book engage readers in active learning, integrate writing as part of the critical thinking process, and emphasize skill transference.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Debra Jackson has taught at CSU Bakersfield since 2002 and has been tenure-track faculty since 2005. She completed her PhD in Philosophy with a minor in Women's Studies at Purdue University in 2002.

Dr. Paul Newberry received his PhD from Claremont Graduate University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cal State Bakersfield and served on the faculty task force that helped develop the CSUB general education assessment plan and co-directed the first critical thinking assessment.

Review:

"The book is a rock-solid piece of scholarship for basic and some not-so-basic foundational logic."

"I really liked the simple but well organized structure of the textbook."

"It is the best textbook I have used for the student body I teach."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1285196848
• ISBN 13: 9781285196848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368