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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100197535798

ISBN-139780197535790

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Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameConcise Guide to Critical Thinking

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Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

AuthorLewis Vaughn

Subject AreaPhilosophy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length6.5 in

Item Width9.2 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2024-402360

Reviews"Vaughn's Concise Guide is probably the best textbook on critical thinking out there. Its main strength is the almost perfect balance between the scope and depth. It covers the majority of critical thinking concepts and explains them with just enough detail for undergrads to get a solid introductory knowledge of the craft."--Eldar Sarajilic, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College "The writing is lucid, concise, and lively. The examples are well chosen and relevant. This text is perfectly pitched for any undergraduate's first foray into informal logic."--Michael Fletcher Maumus, Brooklyn College, "Vaughn's Concise Guide is probably the best textbook on critical thinking out there. Its main strength is the almost perfect balance between the scope and depth. It covers the majority of critical thinking concepts and explains them with just enough detail for undergrads to get a solid introductory knowledge of the craft."--Eldar Sarajilic, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College"The writing is lucid, concise, and lively. The examples are well chosen and relevant. This text is perfectly pitched for any undergraduate's first foray into informal logic."--Michael Fletcher Maumus, Brooklyn College, "Vaughn's Concise Guide is probably the best textbook on critical thinking out there. Its main strength is the almost perfect balance between the scope and depth. It covers the majority of critical thinking concepts and explains them with just enough detail for undergrads to get a solid introductory knowledge of the craft." - Eldar Sarajilic, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College."The writing is lucid, concise, and lively. The examples are well chosen and relevant. This text is perfectly pitched for any undergraduate's first foray into informal logic." - Michael Fletcher Maumus, Brooklyn College.

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Table Of ContentPreface CHAPTER 1. Critical Thinking, Facts, and Feelings WHY IT MATTERS CLAIMS AND REASONS REASONS AND ARGUMENTS ARGUMENTS IN THE ROUGH CHAPTER 2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSTACLES Self-Centered Thinking Group-Centered Thinking Resisting Contrary Evidence Looking for Confirming Evidence Preferring Available Evidence Motivated Reasoning Homophily Mere Exposure Effect Illusion-of-Truth Effect False Consensus Effect THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT PHILOSOPHICAL OBSTACLES Subjective Relativism Social Relativism CHAPTER 3. Identifying and Evaluating Arguments ARGUMENT BASICS JUDGING ARGUMENTS UNCOVERING IMPLIED PREMISES ASSESSING LONG ARGUMENTS CHAPTER 4. Deductive Argument Patterns COMMON FORMS Modus Ponens Modus Tollens Hypothetical Syllogism Disjunctive Syllogism Invalid Argument Forms REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM CHAPTER 5. Inductive Arguments and Statistics ENUMERATIVE INDUCTION Sample Size Representativeness OPINION POLLS ANALOGICAL INDUCTION Relevant Similarities Relevant Dissimilarities The Number of Instances Compared Diversity Among Cases CHAPTER 6. Evidence and Experts EXPERTS AND NONEXPERTS JUDGING EXPERTS EXPERTS AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Impairment Expectation INNUMERACY AND PROBABILITY CHAPTER 7. Fake News TAXONOMY OF MISINFORMATION TELLING FAKE FROM REAL Read Laterally Read Critically Use Google and Wikipedia Carefully Check Your Own Biases FAKE IMAGES CHAPTER 8. Advertising: Commercial and Political HOW ADVERTISING WORKS INTERNET ADVERTISING POLITICAL ADVERTISING CHAPTER 9. Causal Arguments TESTING FOR CAUSES Agreement or Difference Both Agreement and Difference Correlation CAUSAL CONFUSIONS Misidentifying Relevant Factors Mishandling Multiple Factors Being Misled by Coincidence Confusing Cause with Temporal Order Confusing Cause and Effect NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS CHAPTER 10. Inference to the Best Explanation EXPLANATIONS AND INFERENCE THEORIES AND CONSISTENCY THEORIES AND CRITERIA Testability Fruitfulness Scope Simplicity Conservatism TELLING GOOD THEORIES FROM BAD A Doomed Flight An Amazing Cure CHAPTER 11. Judging Scientific Theories WHAT SCIENCE IS AND IS NOT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TESTING SCIENTIFIC THEORIES JUDGING SCIENTIFIC THEORIES Copernicus Versus Ptolemy Climate Change SCIENCE AND WEIRD THEORIES MAKING WEIRD MISTAKES Leaping to the Weirdest Theory Mixing What Seems with What Is Misunderstanding the Possibilities JUDGING WEIRD THEORIES Crop Circles Talking with the Dead CHAPTER 12. Fallacies and Persuaders FALLACIES: IRRELEVANT PREMISES Genetic Fallacy Composition Division Appeal to the Person Equivocation Appeal to Popularity Appeal to Tradition Appeal to Ignorance Appeal to Emotion Red Herring Straw Man Two Wrongs Make a Right FALLACIES: UNACCEPTABLE PREMISES Begging the Question False Dilemma Decision-Point Fallacy Slippery Slope Hasty Generalization PERSUADERS: RHETORICAL MOVES Innuendo Euphemisms and Dysphemisms Stereotyping Ridicule Rhetorical Definitions CHAPTER 13. Critical Thinking in Morality MORAL ARGUMENTS MORAL PREMISES MORAL THEORIES Evaluating Moral Theories Two Important Theories Appendix A: Answers to Exercises Appendix B: Answers to Self-Assessment Quizzes Notes Glossary Credits Index

SynopsisLewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition, this affordable volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more substantial than many of the smaller critical thinking handbooks., Lewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, Second Edition, offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition, this affordable volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more substantial than many of the smaller critical thinking handbooks. Visit www.oup.com/he/vaughn_concise2e for a wealth of additional digital resources for students and instructors.

LC Classification NumberMLCM 2025/43851