Foundations of inquiry
By: edited by Douglas G. Koritz ... [et al.].
Contributors: Koritz, Douglas.; Nosich, Gerald M
Edition: 2007-2008 ed.
Publisher: Pearson Custom Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780536457790
Subjects: Critical thinking -- Study and teaching.; Thought and thinking.; Education, Humanistic.
Description: A student guide to critical thinking, reasoning and liberal arts education.
Notes: "Excerpt taken from Learning to think things through: a guide to critical thinking across the curriculum, second edition, by Gerald M. Nosich" -- Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Critical thinking; value: Creative thinking: an intellectural virtue; value: The elements of reasoning; value: Argument analysis and evaluation; value: Constructing written arguments; value: Critical thinking appendices; value: Foundations of research; value: The liberal arts; value: On the importance of a liberal education; value: 'Only connect...' the goals of liberal education / William Cronon; value: A question of relevance: the social value of the liberal arts / John Churchill and Scott Lurding; value: My view of the nature of liberal arts education / Bruce W. Hauptli; value: Liberal education and global citizenship / Martha Nussbaum; value: The arts; value: Ways of seeing / John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb, and Richard Hollis; value: How we listen to music / Aaron Copland; value: A shared culture of private visions / Kirk Varnedoe; value: The humanities; value: The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus; value: A dream deferred / Langston Hughes; value: Shooting an elephant / George Orwell; value: Natural sciences; value: Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould; value: Charles Darwin and the 'Beagle' / Michael Ruse; value: Social sciences; value: Nobel lecture / Kofi Annan; value: U.S. Supreme Court. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483; value: One drop of blood / Lawrence Wright.