Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues (2nd Edition)
Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues, Second Editionencourages students in a user-friendly way to improve their own natural reasoning skills.  An enjoyable collection of readings presents students with real-life situations that raise questions about the basic assumptions of rationality, naturally engaging them in open dialogue—the hallmark of the rational person.  The situations range from the problem of evidence at a trial to the absence of an explanation of why two children died in the same day-care center on the same day.The text is distinctively different, both conceptually and pedagogically in its approach and critical thinking.Teaches critical thinking in contexts of ordinary life issuesShows how to be a critical thinker using Socrates as a modelEmphasizes open rational dialogue, especially among friends, but even among enemiesIs organized in short packets for ease of assignment and retentionIncludes puzzles of rationality as well as standard itemsSecond edition includes:Ten new readingsExpanded coverage of deduction, including Venn diagramsMore informal fallaciesFully integrated readings and text