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Effective reasoning about ordinary and extraordinary claims.
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| Full Title: | The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims |
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| Edition: | 7th edition |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0197605370 |
| Format: | Paperback/softback |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (9/24/2021) |
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| Dimensions: | 9.9 x 8 x 0.9 inches |
| Weight: | 2.39lbs |
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The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Seventh Edition, provides the broadest range of tools to show students how critical thinking applies in their lives and the world around them. It explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay writing while also incorporating important topics that most other texts leave out, such as "inference to the best explanation," scientific reasoning, evidence and authority, visual reasoning, and obstacles to critical thinking.
Table of Contents
PART 1. BASICS
1. The Power of Critical Thinking
2. Obstacles to Critical Thinking
3. Making Sense of Arguments
PART 2. REASONS
4. Reasons for Belief and Doubt
5. Media Manipulation: Fake News, Bias, and Advertising
6. Fallacies and Persuaders
PART 3. ARGUMENTS
7. Deductive Reasoning: Propositional Logic
8. Deductive Reasoning: Categorical Logic
9. Inductive Reasoning
PART 4. EXPLANATIONS
10. Inference to the Best Explanation
11. Judging Scientific Theories
12. Critical Thinking in Morality and the Law
Appendix A: The Truth About Philosophy Majors
Appendix B: Essays for Evaluation
Appendix C. Answers to Exercises
Appendix D. Answers to Self-Assessment Quizzes
Appendix E. Critical Thinking and Writing
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Critical thinking is a skill that students develop gradually as they progress in school. While the skill becomes more important in higher grades, some students find it difficult to understand the concept of critical thinking .
The reason critical thinking can be difficult to grasp is because it requires students to set aside assumptions and beliefs to learn to think without bias or judgment.
Critical thinking involves suspending your beliefs to explore and question topics from a "blank page" point of view. It also involves the ability to distinguish fact from opinion when exploring a topic.
These exercises are designed to help develop critical thinking skills.
Critical Thinking Exercise 1: Tour Guide for an Alien
This exercise provides an opportunity to think outside your normal way of thinking.
Pretend that you have been assigned the task of conducting a tour for aliens who are visiting the earth and observing human life. You're riding along in a blimp, viewing the landscape below, and you float over a professional baseball stadium. One of the aliens looks down and is very confused by what he sees. You explain that there is a game going on and he asks several important questions.
- What is a game?
- Why are there no female players?
- Why do people get so excited about watching other people play games?
- What is a team?
- Why can't the people in the seats go down on the field and join in?
If you try to answer these questions fully, it will quickly become apparent that we carry around certain assumptions and values. We support a certain team, for instance, because it makes us feel like we're a part of a community. This sense of community is a value that matters to some people more than others.
Furthermore, when trying to explain team sports to an alien, you have to explain the value we place on winning and losing.
When you think like an alien tour guide, you are forced to take a deeper look at the things we do and things we value. Sometimes they don't sound logical from the outside looking in.
Critical Thinking Exercise 2: Fact or Opinion
Do you think you know the difference between fact and opinion? It's not always easy to discern. When you visit websites, do you believe everything you read? The abundance of available information makes it more important than ever for students to develop critical thinking skills. Additionally, it's an important reminder that you must use trustworthy sources in your school work.
If you don't learn the difference between fact and opinion, you may end up reading and watching things that continue to reinforce beliefs and assumptions you already own.
For this exercise, read each statement and try to determine whether it sounds like a fact or an opinion. This can be completed alone or with a study partner .
- My mom is the best mom on earth.
- My dad is taller than your dad.
- My telephone number is difficult to memorize.
- The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet deep.
- Dogs make better pets than turtles.
- Smoking is bad for your health.
- Eighty-five percent of all cases of lung cancer in the U.S. are caused by smoking.
- If you flatten and stretch out a Slinky toy it will be 87 feet long.
- Slinky toys are fun.
- One out of every one hundred American citizens is color blind.
- Two out of ten American citizens are boring.
You will probably find some of the statements easy to judge but other statements difficult. If you can effectively debate the truthfulness of a statement with your partner, then it's most likely an opinion.
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The Power of Critical Thinking: More Answers to the Exercises Contents Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter 2 7 12 43 50 56 84 115 131 143 154 Note: Exercises not answered here are found either in the textbook itself or at the companion website: CHAPTER 1 Exercise 2. Critical thinking is ...
Exercise 1.1 3. Critical thinking is primarily concerned with how you think. 7. Logic is the study of good reasoning and the rules that govern it. 9. Statement: Critical thinking is essential. Non-statement: Is critical thinking essential? 12. A premise is a statement given in support of another statement. 16.
CHAPTER 1. Exercise 1- 2. Critical thinking is primarily concerned with how you think. 3. Critical thinking is systematic because it involves distinct procedures and methods. 5. If you passively accept beliefs that have been handed to you by your parents, your culture, or your teachers, then those beliefs are not really yours.
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Exercise 10.1 1. In general, science is a way of searching for truth; technology is the production of products. 5. (1) Identify the problem or pose a question. (2) Devise a hypothesis to explain the event or phenomenon. (3) Derive a test implication or prediction. (4) Perform the test. (5) Accept or reject the hypothesis. 6.
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The questions come from the textbook "The Power of Critical Thinking" (sixth edition) by Lewis Vaughn. The answers were reviewed by the professor during class. Skip to document. University; High School. ... CHAPTER 1 EXERCISES. It included answers for exercises 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6. Critical Thinking 38% (8) 2. Critical Thinking (4.?, 4.3, 4.4 ...
Return to The Power of Critical Thinking, 6Ce Student Resources; Chapter 5 Answer Key to Select Chapter Exercises. Exercise 5.1 1. Those that have irrelevant premises and those that have unacceptable premises. 5. The genetic fallacy involves an attempt to discredit a claim by appealing to something that's almost always irrelevant to it: its ...
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Critical Thinking Exercise 1: Tour Guide for an Alien. This exercise provides an opportunity to think outside your normal way of thinking. Pretend that you have been assigned the task of conducting a tour for aliens who are visiting the earth and observing human life. You're riding along in a blimp, viewing the landscape below, and you float ...
1. An argument intended to provide logically conclusive support for its conclusion. 2. An argument intended to provide probable, not conclusive, support for its conclusion. 3. Inductive arguments are not truth-preserving, as it is possible for the premises in a strong inductive argument to be true while the conclusion is false. 4.
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