Moore and Parkers Critical Thinking is not about critical thinking as much as it is a text in critical thinking. It provides guided practice through hundreds of exercises and examples, to help students apply content and think critically themselves. With an enjoyable, concise reading style and a visually clear layout, Critical Thinking trains students to improve information acquisition skills, recognize dubious claims, and hone critically important skills.
The authors expanded coverage on how to recognize dubious claims is gravely applicable in the current climate of fake news, deep fakes, and AI-created information. The authors provide guided practice in what instructors say are the most important critical thinking skill sets for students.
1 Driving Blindfolded
2 Reasoning and Arguments
3 Vagueness, Generality, Ambiguity, and Definition
4 Believability of Claims and Credibility of Sources
5 Linguistic Persuasion Devices
6 Bogus Logos Part I: Relevance Fallacies
7 Bogus Logos Part II: Induction Fallacies
8 Bogus Logos III: Formal Fallacies, Fallacies of Ambiguity, and Fallacies
Involving Miscalculating Probabilities
9 Deductive Arguments I (Natural Deduction): Categorical Logic
10 Deductive Arguments II: Truth-Functional (Sentential) Logic
11 Inductive Reasoning
12 Moral, Legal, and Aesthetic Reasoning
Brooke Moore is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico, where he serves as Coordinator of the Critical Thinking Program. A former chair of the Philosophy and History departments, Moore was the University Outstanding Professor in 1996. He has served as a university Master Teacher and has coordinated the universitys program for mentoring new faculty. His publications include The Power of Ideas (with Kenneth Bruder), The Cosmos, God, and Philosophy (with Ralph J. Moore), A Comprehensive Introduction to Moral Philosophy (with Robert Stewart), and other works.
Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He has been three times chair of the university's Faculty Senate, Dean of Undergraduate Education, and Executive Assistant to the President and has received Professional Achievement Honors for his academic work. He has published in analytic philosophy, critical thinking, and philosophy of law, and his views on punishment and responsibility have been included in major anthologies. Outside academia, Parker is a semiprofessional flamenco guitarist, performing with dancers around and about northern California; he rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, plays golf for fun and pool for money, and spends as much time as possible in southern Spain.
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