This 12 month access code care gives you access to all of MyThinkingLab's tools and resources. Want a complete e-book of your textbook, too? Buy immediate access to MyThinkingLab with Pearson eText online with a credit card at www.mythinkinglab.com For undergraduate courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, and Critical Writing, as well as introductory or advanced argumentation courses. Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, this introduction shows students how to detect fallacies and how to examine, and construct cogent arguments. Accessible and reader friendly--yet thorough and rigorous--it shows how to integrate all logic skills into the critical decision-making process.
| ISBN | 0205159990 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | ISBN13 | 9780205159994
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 18 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Published in | Upper Saddle River | | Imprint | Pearson Education (US) | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Format | Network Resource | | Width (mm) | 160 | | Publication date | 22 Jun 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 5 | | DEWEY | 160 | | Academic level | Further/Higher education |
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Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Critical Thinking in Everyday Life Play Fair Seating a Jury Jury Research: Eliminating or Selecting Bias? Impartial Critical Thinking Adversarial Critical Thinking Cooperative Critical Thinking Exercises Additional Reading Online Resources 2 A Few Important Terms Arguments Statements Exercise 2-1 Premises and Conclusions Exercise 2-2 Deductive and Inductive Arguments Exercise 2-3 Deduction, Validity, and Soundness Induction, Strong Arguments, and Cogent Arguments Exercises 2-4, 2-5 Review Questions Online Resources 3 Ad Hominem Arguments The Ad Hominem Fallacy Nonfallacious Ad Hominem Arguments Ad Hominem and Testimony Distinguishing Argument from Testimony Exercise 3-1 Tricky Types of Ad Hominem Bias Ad Hominem Inconsistency and Ad Hominem Psychological Ad Hominem Inverse Ad Hominem Attacking Arguments Exercises 3-2 Review Questions Additional Reading Internet Resources 4 The Second Deadly Fallacy: The Strawman Fallacy Strawman The Principle of Charity The Strawman Fallacy Special Strawman Varieties Limits on Critical Thinking Exercises 4-1 and 4-2 Additional Reading 5 What's the Question? Determine the Conclusion What Is the Exact Conclusion? Exercises 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4 Review Question 6 Relevant and Irrelevant Reasons Premises Are Relevant or Irrelevant Relative to the Conclusion Irrelevant Reason Fallacy The Red Herring Fallacy Exercises 6-1 and 6-2 Review Questions Additional Reading 7 Analyzing Arguments Argument Structure Convergent Arguments Linked Arguments Subarguments Exercises 7-1, 7-2 and 7-3 Assumptions: Their Use and Abuse Legitimate Assumptions Enthymemes Illegitimate Assumptions Exercise 7-4 Review Questions Additional Reading 8 The Burden of Proof Who Bears the Burden of Proof? Appeal to Ignorance The Burden of Proof in the Courtroom Presumption of Innocence When the Defendant Does Not Testify Juries and the Burden of Proof Unappealing Ignorance Exercises 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, 8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 8-7 Review Questions Additional Reading 9 Language and its Pitfalls Defintions Stipulative Definitions Controversial Definitions Deceptive Language The Fallacy of Ambiguity Amphiboly Exercises 9-1, 9-2, and 9-3 Additional Reading Internet Resources 10 Appeal to Authority Authorities as Testifiers Conditions for Legitimate Appeal to Authority Popularity and Tradition Exercise 10-1 Review Questions Additional Reading Cumulative Exercises One (Chapters 1 through 10) 11 Arguments by Analogy Figurative Analogy Deductive Argument by Analogy Exercise 11-1 The Fallacy of Faulty Analogy Exercises 11-2 and 11-3 Analyzing a Deductive Argument by Analogy Deductive Arguments by Analogy and Cooperative Critical Thinking The Fallacy of Analogical Literalism Caution! Watch for Analogies That Look Like Slippery Slopes! Inductive Arguments by Analogy Exercises 11-4, 11-5, 11-7, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9, and 11-10 Review Questions 12 Some Distinctive Arguments and Potential Pitfalls: Slippery Slope, Dilemma, and Golden Mean Arguments Slippery Slope Separating Slippery Slopes from Strawmen The Slippery Slope Fallacy Genuine Slippery Slopes Exercises 12-1and 12-2 Dilemmas, False and True Genuine Dilemmas False Dilemmas Dilemmas in Conditional Form False Dilemma Combined with Strawman Consider the Possibilities Exercise 12-3 Golden Mean The Golden Mean Fallacy Constructing Golden Mean Fallacies Exercise 12-4 Review Questsions Additional Reading Additional Reading Internet Resources 13 Begging the Question The Problem with Question-Begging Arguments A New and Confusing Use of "Begs the Question" Subtle Forms of Question Begging Synonymous Begging the Question Generalization Begging the Question Circular Begging the Question False Charges of Begging the Question Self-Sealing Arguments Complex Questions Exercises 13-1 and 13-2 Review Questions Additional Reading Cumulative Exercise
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