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Think with Socrates, An Introduction to Critical Thinking, 1e Paul Herrick (eBook Complete)

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Contents Dedication Preface Acknowledgments UNIT 1. What Is Critical Thinking? 1 Socrates Part 1: Life and Method Appendix. An Excerpt from The Clouds 2 Socrates Part 2: Life and Death 3 On So... crates’s Two Favorite Questions INTERLUDE: SOCRATES AT WORK Part 1. The Euthyphro Part 2. The Apology UNIT 2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking 4 Cognitive Biases Appendix. Critical Thinking in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol 5 Relativism and Skepticism UNIT 3. Build a Solid Knowledge Base 6 Reason and the Senses 7 Personal Experience, Testimony, and Expert Authority 8 Watch Out for Logical Fallacies INTERLUDE: CRITICAL THINKING AND FREEDOM 9 The Internet, News Media, and Advertising INTERLUDE: THE MYTH OF THE CAVE UNIT 4. Criteria for Correct Reasoning 10 Deduction and Induction: A Closer Look 11 Explorations in Inductive Reasoning: The Logic of Science Appendix. Elementary Probability Theory INTERLUDE: CRITICAL THINKING AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE 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 13 Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning 14 Critical Thinking, Worldviews, and the Examined Life Epilogue Answers to Selected Exercises Glossary [Show More]

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