The New Critical Thinking

Merely learning about logic and fallacious reasoning will not produce effective critical thinkers. Many intellectual errors derive from our reliance on intuitive heuristics. Also, properly assessing premises is crucial in the Internet age. This highly innovative textbook incorporates contemporary psychology, epistemology, and philosophy of science to address both problems, providing an experienced, but fresh, hands-on approach to traditional critical thinking material: assessing deductive and inductive arguments, reconstructing, identifying and diagramming arguments, and causal and probabilistic inference. It also treats real-world issues that are typically neglected.