Books about critical thinking

Helps students to bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. This text teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

Updated examples, streamlined text, and the chapter on definition reworked in a rule-based format strengthen this already strong volume. Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a text that retains all the features that make Rulebook ideally suited for use as a supplementary course book -- including its modest price and compact size. Unlike most textbooks on argumentative writing, ...

A Guide to Critical Thinking.

Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.

When can we trust what we believe, and when are such beliefs suspect? Here, Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life, documenting the cognitive, social and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgements and decisions.

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

Presenting different arguments for religion, this book demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. It aims to show how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children.

Examines critical-thinking skills that are useful in a complex society where success - in all facets of life - often requires the ability to evaluate the validity of many conflicting claims. This work illustrates these tendencies with numerous examples that demonstrate how easily we can be fooled into believing something that isn't true.

'More analysis needed' is a comment lecturers repeatedly have to write on their students' work. This book offers explanations, examples, and activities to develop understanding at each stage. It even applies the techniques to reading, note making, and writing. It helps your students develop this important set of skills and improve their grades.

Revised and updated for the third edition, this practical guide covers critical thinking skills for students.

What is 'humpty-dumptying'? Do 'arguments from analogy' ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using 'weasel words'? This book intends to help anyone who wants to argue well and think critically. It includes such entries as: Principle of Charity; Lawyer's Answer; Least Worst Option; Poisoning the Well; Sentimentality; and Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Using real-world examples, this book shows readers how to win an argument, defend a case, recognise a fallacy, see through deception, persuade a sceptic, and turn defeat into victory. It discusses the fundamentals of logic and considers related issues often encountered in face-to-face debates, such as gaining a sympathetic audience.

Creeping into art, literature, politics and the media, sliding into living rooms and coming soon to a cinema near you the Middle Mind has arrived. Join Curtis White on a crusade against tedium as he takes on this bland, no-thinking-required product' that passes for culture in America and that we've signed up and paid for in full too.