Table Of Contents — Studies in Critical Thinking
Contents
- Preface
- Original Publication of Essays
- Part I. Introductory
- Introduction
- 1. What Critical Thinking Is
- Part II. On Teaching Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Part II
- 2. Teaching Critical Thinking
- 3. Validity
- 4. Teaching Argument Construction
- 5. Encouraging Critical Thinking About Students’ Own Beliefs
- 6. Middle Ground Settling a public controversy by means of a reasonable compromise
- 7. Using Arguments to Inquire
- Part III. About Argument and Arguments
- Introduction to Part III
- 8. Arguments and Critical Thinking
- 9. The Concept of an Argument
- 10. Using Computer-Aided Argument Mapping to Teach Reasoning
- 11. Argumentation Schemes & Their Application in Argument Mining
- 12. Constructing Effective Arguments
- 13. Judging Arguments
- 14. An Introduction to the Study of Fallaciousness
- Part IV. Other Elements of Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Part IV
- 15. How a Critical Thinker Uses the Web
- 16. Definition
- 17. Generalizing
- 18. Appeals to Authority Sources and Experts
- 19. Logic and Critical Thinking
- 20. Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
- 21. The Unruly Logic of Evaluation
- Index
