Critical-Thinking-a-Concise-Guide-TSG.pdf

• Critical Thinking

Attempts to persuade us - to believe something, to do something, to buy

something - are everywhere. How can we learn to think critically about

such attempts and to distinguish those that actually provide us with

good reasons for being persuaded? Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is

a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to

thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible

discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to

tell a good argument from a bad one.

Key features of the book are:

• Clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation

• How to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as 'truth',

'knowledge' and 'opinion'

• How to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument

• How to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad

• Topical examples from politics, sport, medicine and music; chapter

summaries; glossary and exercises throughout

The second edition has been revised and updated throughout with

expanded exercises, topical examples and clearer discussions.

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone,

student or professional, at work or in the classroom, seeking to improve

their reasoning and arguing skills.

Tracy Bowel I is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato,

New Zealand.

Gary Kemp is senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow,

UK.

Reviews of the first edition

This concise guide offers relevant, rigorous and approachable methods

. . . The authors focus on analysing and assessing arguments in a thought-

fully structured series of chapters, with clear definitions, a glossary, plenty

of examples and some useful exercises/

Will Ord, Times Educational Supplement

Tn my view this book is the most useful textbook on the market for

its stated audience. It provides exceptionally clear explanations, with suffi-

cient technical detail, but without over-complication. It is my first-choice

text for teaching critical thinking to first-year undergraduate students/

Dawn Phillips, University of Southampton

'. . . written with actual undergraduates, and the standard mistakes and

confusions that they tend to be subject to, clearly borne in mind. This is

especially clear in Chapter 7 ("Truth, knowledge and belief"), which

tackles the "all truth is relative" myth head-on . . /

Helen Beebee, University of Manchester

'This is the best single text I have seen for addressing the level, presump-

tions and interests of the non-specialist/

Charles Ess, Drury University

Critical Thinking

A Concise Guide

Second edition

Tracy Bowel I

and

Gary Kemp

O Routledge

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LONDON AND NEW YORK

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