Think with Socrates

An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Herrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-933186-4 (ISBN)

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Brief yet comprehensive, Think with Socrates: An Introduction to Critical Thinking uses the methods, ideas, and life of Socrates as a model for critical thinking. It offers a more philosophical, historical, and accessible introduction than longer textbooks while still addressing all of the key topics in logic and argumentation. Applying critical thinking to the Internet, mass media, advertising, personal experience, expert authority, the evaluation of
sources, writing argumentative essays, and forming a worldview, Think with Socrates resonates with today's students and teaches them how to apply critical thinking in the real world. At the same time, it covers the
ancient intellectual roots and history of the field, placing critical thinking in its larger context to help students appreciate its perennial value. Author Paul Herrick incorporates original sources from newspapers, a variety of media, and philosophical writing, along with engaging "interludes" featuring selections from Plato's dialogues. A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/herrick offers resources for students and instructors.

Paul Herrick received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Washington. Since 1983 he has taught philosophy at Shoreline Community College. He is the author of two previous books published by Oxford University Press: Introduction to Logic (2012) and The Many Worlds of Logic, Second Edition (1999).

Dedication:
Preface:
Acknowledgments:
Unit 1. What Is Critical Thinking?
Chapter 1. Socrates Part 1: Life and Method
Appendix. An Excerpt from The Clouds
Chapter 2. Socrates Part 2: Life and Death
Chapter 3. On Socrates's Two Favorite Questions
Interlude: Socrates at Work
Part 1. The Euthyphro
Part 2. The Apology
Unit 2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking
Chapter 4. Cognitive Biases
Appendix. Critical Thinking in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
Chapter 5. Relativism and Skepticism
Unit 3. Build a Solid Knowledge Base
Chapter 6. Reason and the Senses
Chapter 7. Personal Experience, Testimony, and Expert Authority
Chapter 8. Watch Out for Logical Fallacies
Interlude: Critical Thinking and Freedom
Chapter 9. The Internet, News Media, and Advertising
Interlude: The Myth of the Cave
Unit 4. Criteria for Correct Reasoning
Chapter 10. Deduction and Induction: A Closer Look
Chapter 11. Explorations in Inductive Reasoning: The Logic of Science
Appendix. Elementary Probability Theory:
Interlude: Critical Thinking and the Birth of Modern Science
Chapter 12. Explorations in Deductive Reasoning: Categorical Logic
Appendix 1. Testing Syllogisms Using Rules:
Appendix 2. How an Idea in Logic Led to the Digital Computer and Transformed the World:
Unit 5. Moral Reasoning, Worldviews, and the Examined Life
Chapter 13. Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning
Chapter 14. Critical Thinking, Worldviews, and the Examined Life
Epilogue:
Answers to Selected Exercises:
Glossary:
Index:

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.8.2014
Zusatzinfo	Figures; Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-19-933186-3 / 0199331863
ISBN-13	978-0-19-933186-4 / 9780199331864
Zustand	Neuware