Book description
An Introduction to Critical Thinking, useful for undergraduate students, discusses critical thinking, relation between critical thinking and logic, evaluation of information and arguments, examines inferences and fallacies, and provides strategies to develop skills for thinking, reading and writing critically. It will help students develop their critical thinking faculties and to overcome personal prejudices and biases, the influence of social brainwashing, fears associated with free-thinking and egocentrism.Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. What Is Critical Thinking?
- Chapter 2. Critical Thinking and Logic
- Chapter 3. Evaluating Arguments: Inferences and Fallacies
- Chapter 4. Information and Its Evaluation
- Chapter 5. Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically
- Notes
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: An Introduction to Critical Thinking
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2010
- Publisher(s): Pearson India
- ISBN: 9788131795644
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