Hard Thinking
The Reintroduction of Logic to Everyday Life
Seiten
1995
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-8003-0 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-8003-0 (ISBN)
This text suggests that too many college students lack the power to reason and argue effectively. It sets out to rebuild their confidence in the possibility of objective reasoning by challenging contemporary cliches about the limits of objectivity and the relativity of value judgements.
Too many college students lack the power to reason and argue effectively. Hard Thinking allows students to rebuild their confidence in the possibility of objective reasoning, by challenging contemporary cliches about the limits of objectivity and the relativity of value judgements. An entertaining, clearly written text for courses in logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, and English composition, Hard Thinking presents dialogues that reproduce commonly used "argument stoppers" (Who are you to think that you know the truth? Isn't it all relative? Isn't it all subjective?), and subjects them to scrutiny. The text teaches students how to avoid the pitfalls of "soft" or sloppy thinking, enabling them to be better readers, better arguers, and more critical consumers of quantitative data.
Too many college students lack the power to reason and argue effectively. Hard Thinking allows students to rebuild their confidence in the possibility of objective reasoning, by challenging contemporary cliches about the limits of objectivity and the relativity of value judgements. An entertaining, clearly written text for courses in logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, and English composition, Hard Thinking presents dialogues that reproduce commonly used "argument stoppers" (Who are you to think that you know the truth? Isn't it all relative? Isn't it all subjective?), and subjects them to scrutiny. The text teaches students how to avoid the pitfalls of "soft" or sloppy thinking, enabling them to be better readers, better arguers, and more critical consumers of quantitative data.
John D. Mullen is professor of philosophy at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York. He is the co-author, with Byron Roth, of Decision Making: Its Logic and Practice (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).
Chapter 1 What is Hard Thinking? The Core Language of Reasoning Chapter 2 How to Read Arguments Chapter 3 Myths of Privileged Sources Chapter 4 Hard Thinking About Values Chapter 5 Mastering Language Chapter 6 Everyday Fallacies of Reasoning Chapter 7 Fallacies of Technical Reasoning Chapter 8 Modern Formal Logic Chapter 9 Appendix: Aristotle's Herculean Try
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.6.1995 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 149 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8476-8003-7 / 0847680037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8476-8003-0 / 9780847680030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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