The Critical Thinking Toolkit

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Foresman, Galen A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Very Idea of Critical Thinking
  • 1 Basic Tools for Critical Thinking about Arguments
  • 1.1 Claims
  • 1.2 Arguments
  • 1.3 Premises
  • 1.4 Conclusions
  • 2 More Tools for Critical Thinking about Arguments
  • 2.1 Deductive and Inductive Arguments
  • 2.2 Conditional Claims
  • 2.3 Classifying and Comparing Claims
  • 2.4 Claims and Definitions
  • 2.5 The Critical Thinker's "Two Step": Validity and Soundness/Cogency and Strength
  • 2.6 Showing Invalidity by Counterexample
  • Notes
  • 3 Tools for Deductive Reasoning with Categories
  • 3.1 Thinking Categorically
  • 3.2 Categorical Logic
  • 3.3 Translating English Claims to Standard Form
  • 3.4 Formal Deduction with Categories: Immediate Inferences
  • 3.5 Formal Deduction with Categories: Syllogisms
  • 4 Tools for Deductive Reasoning with Claims
  • 4.1 Propositional vs. Categorical Logics
  • 4.2 Common Deductively Valid Forms
  • 4.3 Equivalences
  • 4.4 Formal Deduction with Forms and Equivalences
  • 4.5 Common Formal Fallacies
  • 5 Tools for Detecting Informal Fallacies
  • 5.1 Critical Thinking, Critical Deceiving, and the "Two Step"
  • 5.2 Subjectivist Fallacy
  • 5.3 Genetic Fallacies
  • 5.4 Ad Hominem Fallacies: Direct, Circumstantial, and Tu Quoque
  • 5.5 Appeal to Emotions or Appeal to the Heart (argumentum ad passiones)
  • 5.6 Appeal to Force (argumentum ad baculum)
  • 5.7 Appeal to Ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam)
  • 5.8 Appeal to Novelty (argumentum ad novitatem)
  • 5.9 Appeal to the People (argumentum ad populum)
  • 5.10 Appeal to Unqualified Authority (argumentum ad verecundiam)
  • 5.11 Fallacy of Accident
  • 5.12 False Dilemma
  • 5.13 Semantic and Syntactic Fallacies
  • 5.14 Begging the Question (petitio principii)
  • 5.15 Question-Begging Sentences
  • 5.16 Missing the Point (ignoratio elenchi)
  • 5.17 Fallacy of Composition
  • 5.18 Fallacy of Division
  • 5.19 Is-Ought Fallacy
  • 5.20 Appeal to Tradition
  • 5.21 Quoting Out of Context
  • 5.22 Red Herring
  • 5.23 Straw Man and Fidelity
  • 5.24 Hasty Fallacization
  • 5.25 A Brief Argument Clinic
  • Notes
  • 6 Tools for Critical Thinking about Induction
  • 6.1 Inductive vs. Deductive Arguments Again
  • 6.2 Analogies and Arguments from Analogy
  • 6.3 Fallacies about Causation
  • 6.4 Inductive Statistical Reasoning
  • 6.5 Base Rate Fallacy
  • 6.6 Slippery Slope and Reductio ad Absurdum
  • 6.7 Hasty Generalization
  • 6.8 Mill's Five Methods
  • Notes
  • 7 Tools for Critical Thinking about Experience and Error
  • 7.1 Error Theory
  • 7.2 Cognitive Errors
  • 7.3 Environment and Error
  • 7.4 Background and Ignorance
  • 7.5 Misleading Language
  • 7.6 Standpoint and Disagreement
  • 8 Tools for Critical Thinking about Justification
  • 8.1 Knowledge: The Basics
  • 8.2 Feelings as Evidence
  • 8.3 Skepticism and Sensory Experience
  • 8.4 Emotions and Evidence
  • 8.5 Justifying Values

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