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Concise Principles of Reasoning
Concise, yet covering all the basics of a 15-week course in informal logic or critical reasoning, this text engages students with a lively format and clear writing style. The small scale of the book keeps the cost low, a vital consideration in today’s economy, yet without compromising on logical rigor.
The author’s presentation strikes a careful balance: it offers clear, jargon-free writing while preserving rigor. Brimming with numerous pedagogical features, this accessible text assists students with analysis, reconstruction, and evaluation of arguments and helps them become independent, analytical thinkers. Introductory students are exposed to the basic principles of reasoning while also having their appetites whetted for future courses in philosophy.
Teaching and Learning Experience
Improve Critical Thinking - Abundant pedagogical aids -- including exercises and study questions within each chapter -- encourage students to examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more!
Engage Students - Chapter and section outlines, summaries, illustrative examples, special-emphasis boxes and key terms present new ideas in manageable-sized units of information so students can digest each concept before moving on to the next one, and ensure students key-in on crucial points to remember.
Support Instructors -Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Plus, this concise textbook contains only as much material as you can cover in a course, creating an affordable alternative you can assign with confidence to a cost-conscious student population. Additionally, each chapter in How to Think Logically is designed as a self-contained unit so that you can choose the combination and order of chapters according to the needs of your courses; making the text a flexible base for courses in logic, critical thinking, and rhetoric.
Table of contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF REASONING
Chapter One What Is Logical Thinking? And Why Should We Care?
Chapter Two Thinking Logically and Speaking One’s Mind
Chapter Three The Virtues of Belief
PART II: REASON AND ARGUMENT
Chapter Four Tips for Argument Analysis
Chapter Five Evaluating Deductive Arguments
Chapter Six Analyzing Inductive Arguments
PART III: INFORMAL FALLACIES
Chapter Seven Some Ways an Argument Can Fail
Chapter Eight Avoiding Ungrounded Assumptions
Chapter Nine From Unclear Language to Unclear Reasoning
Chapter Ten Avoiding Irrelevant Premises
PART IV: MORE ON DEDUCTIVE REASONING
Chapter Eleven Compound Propositions
Chapter Twelve Checking the Validity of Propositional Arguments
Chapter Thirteen Categorical Propositions and Immediate Inferences
Chapter Fourteen Categorical Syllogisms
Appendix: Summary of Informal Fallacies
Answers to Selected Exercises
Glossary/Index
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF REASONING
Chapter One What Is Logical Thinking? And Why Should We Care?
1.1 The Study of Reasoning
1.2 Logic and Reasoning
1.3 What Arguments Are
1.4 Reconstructing Arguments &n
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