Author: John Chaffee
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date: 2012
Book Size: 43.29 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Thinking Critically

by John Chaffee, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, THINKING CRITICALLY teaches the fundamental thinking, reasoning, reading, and writing abilities that students need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The text begins with basic skills related to personal experience and then carefully progresses to th

Author: Nathan Nobis
Publisher: Open Philosophy Press
Release Date: 2019-06-19
Book Size: 69.50 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Thinking Critically About Abortion

by Nathan Nobis, Thinking Critically About Abortion Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Abortion book, This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading. From the Preface To many people, abortion is an issue for which discussions and debates are frustrating and fruitless: it seems like no progress will ever be made towards any understanding, much less resolution or even compromise. Judgments like these, however, are premature because some basic techniques from critical thinking, such as carefully defining words and testing definitions, stating the full structure of arguments so each step of the reasoning can be examined, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different explanations can help us make progress towards these goals. When emotions run high, we sometimes need to step back and use a passion for calm, cool, critical thinking. This helps us better understand the positions and arguments of people who see things differently from us, as well as our own positions and arguments. And we can use critical thinking skills help to try to figure out which positions are best, in terms of being supported by good arguments: after all, we might have much to learn from other people, sometimes that our own views should change, for the better. Here we use basic critical thinking skills to argue that abortion is typically not morally wrong. We begin with less morally-controversial claims: adults, children and babies are wrong to kill and wrong to kill, fundamentally, because they, we, are conscious, aware and have feelings. We argue that since early fetuses entirely lack these characteristics, they are not inherently wrong to kill and so most abortions are not morally wrong, since most abortions are done early in pregnancy, before consciousness and feeling develop in the fetus. Furthermore, since the right to life is not the right to someone else’s body, fetuses might not have the right to the pregnant woman’s body—which she has the right to—and so she has the right to not allow the fetus use of her body. This further justifies abortion, at least until technology allows for the removal of fetuses to other wombs. Since morally permissible actions should be legal, abortions should be legal: it is an injustice to criminalize actions that are not wrong. In the course of arguing for these claims, we: 1. discuss how to best define abortion; 2. dismiss many common “question-begging” arguments that merely assume their conclusions, instead of giving genuine reasons for them; 3. refute some often-heard “everyday arguments” about abortion, on all sides; 4. explain why the most influential philosophical arguments against abortion are unsuccessful; 5. provide some positive arguments that at least early abortions are not wrong; 6. briefly discuss the ethics and legality of later abortions, and more. This essay is not a “how to win an argument” piece or a tract or any kind of apologetics. It is not designed to help anyone “win” debates: everybody “wins” on this issue when we calmly and respectfully engage arguments with care, charity, honesty and humility. This book is merely a reasoned, systematic introduction to the issues that we hope models these skills and virtues. Its discussion should not be taken as absolute “proof” of anything: much more needs to be understood and carefully discussed—always.

Author: Open University
Publisher:
Release Date: 2008-07-14
Book Size: 33.88 MB
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Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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by Open University, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, To think critically, is to weigh up all sides of an argument and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. This is a skill that we use in many everyday decision making situations. This booklet shows how these skills can be transferred effectively to academic life. It explains why critical thinking is important, and contains advice on reading with a critical eye, writing with a critical voice and techniques to practice with others.There is an accompanying Skills for OU Study website http://www.open.ac.uk.skillsforstudy.If you are a current OU student please contact Student Services before ordering.

Author: Dariusz Kubok
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2017-11-07
Book Size: 62.32 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Thinking Critically What Does It Mean

by Dariusz Kubok, Thinking Critically What Does It Mean Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically What Does It Mean book, Analyses of the dynamics of change present in Europe are not complete without taking into account the role and function of the critical approach as a founding element of European culture. An appreciation of critical thinking must go hand-in-hand with reflection on its essence, forms, and centuries-long tradition. The European philosophical tradition has thematized the problem of criticism since its appearance. This book contains articles on the history of philosophical criticism and ways that it has been understood in European thought. Individual chapters contain both historical-philosophical and problem-oriented analyses, indicating the relationships between philosophical criticism and rationalism, logic, scepticism, atheism, dialectic procedure, and philosophical counseling, among others. Philosophical reflection on critical thinking allows for an acknowledgment of its significance in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of politics, aesthetics, methodology, philosophy of language, and cultural theory. The book should interest not only humanities scholars, but also scholars in other fields, as the development of an anti-dogmatic critical approach is a lasting and indispensible challenge for all disciplines.

Author: Diane F. Halpern
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 1996
Book Size: 45.11 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking

by Diane F. Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking book, Thinking is not a spectator sport. Research has shown that the skills of critical thinking must be practiced with a wide variety of problems in many different contexts in order to be learned and retained. The exercises, questions, and reviews in this workbook are designed to provide the systematic practice needed to help readers become more critical thinkers. By reading and responding to the questions before reading the accompanying chapter in the text, readers will develop a framework that will help them to comprehend, anticipate, and organize the information in the accompanying chapter. Based on principles of active learning with authentic tasks, all of the exercises were written to be similar to problems and situations readers are likely to encounter in real life -- and they provide numerous examples for both short and extended writing assignments. Problems include topics such as saving money; understanding a research report that appears in a newspaper; recognizing propaganda; reaching reasoned conclusions; avoiding common biases; and deciding when a risk is "too risky." These exercises also work well for cooperative learning projects and are designed to help adult learners develop the skills and the habits of mind essential for life-long learning. Designed to be used in conjunction with Halpern's text, Thought & Knowledge, this workbook could also be used with other texts or as a stand-alone enhancement in courses on thinking skills and cognitive psychology. All exercises along with syllabus suggestions and self assessments are available in the Instructor's Manual.

Author: James Hugh Kiersky
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Release Date: 1995
Book Size: 80.37 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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by James Hugh Kiersky, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, Incorporates the Critical Technique approach that provides a step-by-step technique for constructing and critically evaluating argumentative reasoning. Successfully integrates informal logic and critical thinking for those instructors who want the flexibility of teaching both. Chapter-opening quotes from rock music captures students attention. Narrative case studies, argumentative writing exercises and Reality Checks with everyday examples of argumentative techniques taken from advertisements reinforce chapter material. Mid- and end-of-chapter exercises are broken into three levels of difficulty to challenge students and aid instructors in evaluating student progress.

Author: Lisa Marin Burkhart
Publisher:
Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 37.24 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking

by Lisa Marin Burkhart, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking book,

Author: Myra Shulman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ELT
Release Date: 2014-09-24
Book Size: 48.17 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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by Myra Shulman, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, Just like its predecessor, Thinking Critically helps students improve reading, writing, and research skills while exploring and analyzing major global issues. Although many of the same topics are explored in this second edition—world hunger, global health, gender equality, regional conflict, cultural heritage, and immigration policies—all 31 authentic readings in the second edition are new. New topics included in this edition are cybersecurity, climate change, education reform, leadership, and human rights. Each chapter contains two or three readings (from print and online news sources, journals, and blogs) designed to raise rather than provide answers; a vocabulary review and discussion questions for each reading; a reaction writing task; a question on the topic to research; a writing assignment for a specific academic or business genre (with models in an appendix); speaking activities (oral presentation, debate, or role-play); and a Thinking about It task. The Thinking about It task calls on students’ ability to evaluate a complex issue with objectivity and to propose a realistic approach, making this textbook good preparation for academic courses that require critical-thinking skills to express opinions both orally and in writing. Several new academic/business written genres (abstract, fact sheet, briefing paper, report on a survey) have also been added.

Author: Jean Mercer
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date: 2019-02-12
Book Size: 49.83 MB
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Thinking Critically About Child Development

by Jean Mercer, Thinking Critically About Child Development Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Child Development book, With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically. Author Jean Mercer and new co-authors Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use anecdotes to illustrate common errors of critical thinking and encourage students to consider evidence and logic relevant to everyday beliefs. New material in the Fourth Edition covers adolescence, adverse childhood experiences, genetics, LGBT issues for both parents and children, and other issues about sexuality, keeping readers up to date on the latest scholarship in the field. Also of Interest Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach, Second Edition: Chronologically organized, this book presents topics within the field of child development through unique and highly engaging Active Learning opportunities. Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, Third Edition: Topically organized, this book invites students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development.

Author: Andrea C. Nakaya
Publisher:
Release Date: 2014
Book Size: 44.85 MB
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Category : Internet
Languages : en
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by Andrea C. Nakaya, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, Looks at questions related to social networking and its place in society, providing writings from opposing viewpoints intended to encourage critical thinking on how they relate to society, the individual, privacy, and teen safety.

Author: Jamuna Carroll
Publisher: Thinking Critically
Release Date: 2018
Book Size: 37.93 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Online social networks
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Thinking Critically

by Jamuna Carroll, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, More than one-third of the world's population now uses social networking, which is having a huge impact on the way people think, communicate, and interact. Through a narrative-driven pro/con format¿supported by facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations¿this title examines issues related to social networking. Topics include: Does Social Networking Benefit Society? Does Social Networking Weaken People¿s Social Skills? Is Social Networking Harming Young Adults? Does Social Networking Facilitate Crime and Violence?

Author: Andrea C. Nakaya
Publisher:
Release Date: 2018
Book Size: 28.96 MB
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Category : Obesity
Languages : en
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Thinking Critically

by Andrea C. Nakaya, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, This title examines issues related to obesity. Topics include: Does obesity pose a serious health threat? Is obesity a matter of personal responsibility? Is the food industry to blame for obesity? Can the United States reduce the problem of obesity?