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Critical reflection : a textbook for critical thinking / Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm), 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical thinking--Textbooks.
- Critical thinking.
- Reasoning--Textbooks.
- Reasoning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In an era of information overload, our need to learn how to critically evaluate the growing flood of information has never been greater. This title showcases the role of reason in a world saturated by media-enhanced persuasion and complex scientific and technological jargon.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Argument structure. 1. Overview
- 2. Argument components
- 3. Mapping an argument
- pt. 2. Meaning. 4. Language use
- 5. Definitions
- pt. 3. Truth. 6. Acceptability conditions
- pt. 4. Logic. 7. Categorical logic: translation
- 8. Categorical logic: validity
- 9. Propositional logic: translation
- 10. Propositional logic: validity
- pt. 5. Induction. 11. Causation and probability
- 12. Science
- 13. Arguments by analogy
- pt. 6 Fallacies. 14. Fallacies
- Appendices. 1. Answers to select questions
- 2. A bad essay: "Vegetarianism and moral duty"
- 3. Hints for writing philosophy papers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [507]-510 and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8358-0
- OCLC:
- 767670640
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