Thinking - Softcover

Kirby, Gary R.; Goodpaster Ph.D., Jeffery R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130814431 ISBN 13: 9780130814432

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

Suitable for courses in Critical Thinking, English Composition, Introduction to Logic, Philosophy, and Psychology, this text was written to give teachers and students a better and more comprehensive critical thinking text; one that presents an interdisciplinary, systematic, practical, and friendly approach to thinking―a valuable skill that can enlarge the students' ability to think through life. The Second Edition reflects the analyses, ideas, and support of the teachers, reviewers, editors, and students who contributed their feedback.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book about thinking presents readers with a systematic, practical, and friendly approach that encompasses all fields of study and business. It explores a valuable skill that will inspire and enlarge people's ability to think through life. Chapter topics cover what thinking is, personal barriers, sensing, brain and memory, language, feeling, creative thinking, organizing, logical thinking, scientific thinking, persuasive thinking, problem solving, evaluating, decision and action, and the challenge to go on thinking. They draw ideas on thinking from every period of history-from the philosophers, poets, scientists, psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists. For thinkers of the new millenium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130814431
• ISBN 13: 9780130814432
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 319