Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking / Edition 9

by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

Overview

This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078038181
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	207,942
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the movement to make creative and critical thinking central emphases in education and in society. The author of 22 books and over 500 essays, he is Professor of Humanities Emeritus at State University of New York, Delhi.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
PART I. THE CONTEXT
1. Who Are You? /
2. What Is Critical Thinking? /
3. What Is Truth? /
4. What Does It Mean to Know? /
5. How Good Are Your Opinions? /
6. What Is Evidence? /
7. What Is Argument?
PART II. THE PITFALLS /
8. The Basic Problem: “Mine Is Better” /
9. Errors of Perspective /
10. Errors of Procedure /
11. Errors of Expression /
12. Errors of Reaction /
13. The Errors in Combination
PART III. A STRATEGY /
14. Knowing Yourself /
15. Being Observant /
16. Selecting an Issue /
17. Conducting Inquiry /
18. Forming a Judgment /
19. Persuading Others
Notes
Index