Critical Reasoning: A User's Manual (Southworth and Swoyer)
- Page ID
- 94990
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Teaching critical reasoning is difficult. So is learning to reason more carefully and accurately. The greatest challenge is teaching (and learning) skills in such a way that students can spontaneously apply them outside the classroom once the course is over (teaching people to apply skills in the classroom can be hard enough, but clearly isn’t a worthwhile goal in itself).
- Front Matter
- 1: Basic Concepts of Critical Thinking
- 2: Arguments
- 3: Conditionals and Conditional Arguments
- 4: Perception- Expectation and Inference
- 5: Evaluating Sources of Information
- 6: The Internet - Finding and Evaluating Information Online
- 7: Memory and Reasoning
- 8: Memory II- Pitfalls and Remedies
- 9: Emotions and Reasoning
- 10: Relevance, Irrelevance, and Fallacies
- 11: Fallacies- Common Ways of Reasoning Badly
- 12: Induction in the Real World
- 13: Rules for Calculating Probabilities
- 14: Conditional Probabilities
- 15: Samples and Correlations
- 16: Applications and Pitfalls
- 17: Heuristics and Biases
- 18: More Biases, Pitfalls, and Traps
- 19: Cognitive Dissonance- Psychological Inconsistency
- 20: Critical Reasoning and the Scientific Method
- 21: Risk
- 22: Social Influences on Thinking
- 23: The Power of the Situation
- 24: Reasoning in Groups
- 25: Stereotypes and Prejudices
- 26: Social Dilemmas
- 27: Diagrammatic Reasoning- Using Pictures to Think
- 28: Recognizing Where Cognitive Tools Apply- Cues, Transfer, and Habits
- 29: Application to Metaphysics
- 30: Application to Epistemology
- 31: Application to Ethics
- 32: Formal Logic, Symbolization and Negation Manipulation
- 33: Truth Tables
- 34: Appendix
- Back Matter
Thumbnail: Logic is the art of combining smaller arguments (premises) into a bigger argument, not unlike a jigsaw puzzle. (Pixabay license; PIRO via Pixabay)