Making up Your Mind Pb: A Textbook in Critical Thinking (The Broadview Library of Logic and Critical Thinking) - Softcover

Robert Mutti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551114275 ISBN 13: 9781551114279

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1999

Synopsis

This focused text is directed consistently towards teaching students to write their own arguments so as to better understand their own thoughts and present them to others in a clear written form. The text also provides a distinctive discussion of the role of emotion in argument under the concept of "emotional intelligence," and includes a wide range of exercises.In introducing students to the nature of argument (and especially ethical argument), Making Up Your Mind features a comprehensive introduction to the logical forms of assertions and the most common forms of expression in English. The book then shows how to use all the main terms of argument, and provides a brief introduction to the most common forms of syllogism. The deductive and inductive aspects of argument are treated, and students are taught a basic technique of testing arguments for validity.Making Up Your Mind provides an argument outline, which can be used to organize virtually any ethical argument. This argument outline also provides a realistic context in which to study the most important informal fallacies and learn how to avoid them. In its closing chapters, the book discusses the nature of good evidence and good sources of evidence and their role in argument. Included are discussions of scientific method, the logical form of arguments about causal theories, and arguments from analogy.

About this title

Review:

"In a word: intoxicating." -- Lori Montgomery, FFWD Magazine

From the Publisher:

About the Series: In recent years the number of different approaches taken by academics to the matter of teaching logic and critical thinking has increased extraordinarily quickly - as has the number of textbooks and other related books in this area. Yet academics continue to come up with interesting and innovative new approaches. The Broadview Library of Logic and Critical Thinking is designed to address this situation in a way that benefits all concerned. Each volume in this series offers a unique perspective, but in order to ensure their economic viability all titles are produced according to standard series specifications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1551114275
• ISBN 13: 9781551114279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 179