Asking the right questions
Subtitle: a guide to critical thinking
By: M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.
Contributors: Keeley, Stuart M., 1941-
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780205506682
Subjects: Criticism; Critical thinking
Description: This updated text helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches how to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. --from publisher descriptioin.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The benefit of asking the right questions; title: Critical thinking as a social activity; title: What are the issue and the conclusion?; title: What are the reasons?; title: What words or phrases are ambiguous?; title: What are the value and descriptive assumptions?; title: Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?; title: How good is the evidence : intuition, personal experience, testimonials, and appeals to authority?; title: How good is the evidence : personal observation, research studies, case examples, and analogies?; title: Are there rival causes?; title: Are the statistics deceptive?; title: What significant information is omitted?; title: What reasonable conclusions are possible?; title: Overcoming obstacles to critical thinking.