Second thoughts : critical thinking from a multicultural perspective
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Second thoughts : critical thinking from a multicultural perspective
Mayfield, c1996
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A complete introduction to critical thinking that places an emphasis on multi-cultural issues and the media. It includes examples, exercises and applications of particular interest to women and coloured people.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introductory issues: out of the fog - the pathway to critical thinking
- out of the silence - multicultural dimensions of critical thinking. Part II. Acquiring critical thinking skills: argumentation - steering clear of bad reasoning
- the playing fields of deduction and induction
- analysis - evaluating reasoning
- language - expressing thoughts and values
- problem-solving and questioning techniques
- major fallacies - steering clear of argumentative quicksand
- fallacies - the second wave
- the big three of inductive reasoning - analogies, cause and effect and statistics. Part III Going out into the world: advertising - a parrallel universe
- film and television - images on the screen
- writing - shaping thoughts into an essays
- moral reasoning - thinking from the heart
- handling claims and drawing inferences
- patterns of deductive reasoning - rules of inference
- syllogisms
- legal reasoning.
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