Current issues and enduring questions : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings / Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnet, Sylvan.

Contributor:

Bedau, Hugo Adam.

O'Hara, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning.

Logic.

Social ethics.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 755 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

Twelfth edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, [2020]

Contents:

Critical thinking

Critical reading: getting started

Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments

Visual rhetoric: thinking about images as arguments

Writing an analysis of an argument

Developing an argument of your own

Using sources

A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model

A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies

A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument

A literary critic's view: arguing about literature

A debater's view: oral presentations and debate

Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven?

Are algorithms biased (or are we)?

(Un)safe spaces: can we tolerate intolerant speech on campus?

The current state of childhood: is "helicopter parenting" the problem with millennials?

Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable?

Military service: should it be required?

College education : what is its purpose?

Race and criminal justice: is the system broken?

The ethics of appropriation: is it ok to copy?

Online versus IRL: how has social networking changed how we relate to one another?

Immigration: what is to be done?

#MeToo: (how) has society changed for women?

American democracy: is the nation in danger?

What is the ideal society?

How and why do we create the "other"?

What is happiness?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

131919818X

9781319198183

1319281400

9781319281403

OCLC:

1103675070