Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, With Readings

by Barnet, Sylvan

• ISBN13: 9780312171544
• ISBN10: 0312171544
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Part One CRITICAL THINKING AND READING	1	(98)
Critical Thinking	3	(19)
Critical Reading: Getting Started	22	(28)
Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments	50	(49)
Part Two CRITICAL WRITING	99	(150)
Writing an Analysis of an Argument	101	(59)
Developing an Argument of Your Own	160	(31)
Using Sources	191	(58)
Part Three FURTHER VIEWS ON ARGUMENT	249	(134)
A Philosopher's View: The Toulmin Model	251	(9)
A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies	260	(39)
A Psychologist's View: Rogerian Argument	299	(9)
A Lawyer's View: Steps toward Civic Literacy	308	(31)
A Literary Critic's View: Arguing about Literature	339	(44)
Part Four CURRENT ISSUES: PRO-CON DEBATES	383	(50)
Abortion: Whose Right to Life Is It Anyway?	385	(11)
Affirmative Action: Is It Fair?	396	(16)
Gay Marriages: Should They Be Legalized?	412	(6)
Gun Control: Would It Really Help?	418	(8)
Sex Education: Should Condoms Be Distributed in Schools?	426	(7)
Part Five CURRENT ISSUES: CASEBOOKS	433	(196)
Censoring the Internet: Is It Necessary?	435	(24)
Cloning: Dare We Replicate Human Beings?	459	(16)
The Death Penalty: Can It Ever Be Justified?	475	(40)
Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized?	515	(30)
The Environment: Natural Resource or Raw Material?	545	(10)
Euthanasia: Should Doctors Intervene at the End of Life?	555	(21)
Multiculturalism: What Is It, and Is It Good or Bad?	576	(22)
Sexual Harassment: Is There Any Doubt about What It Is?	598	(18)
Violence on TV: Do Children Need to Be Protected?	616	(13)
Part Six ENDURING QUESTIONS: ESSAYS, STORIES, POEMS, AND PLAYS	629	(213)
What Is the Ideal Society?	631	(54)
How Free Is the Will of the Individual within Society?	685	(109)
What Are the Grounds of Religious Faith?	794	(48)
Appendix: World Wide Web Sources for Current Issues	842	(13)
Index of Authors and Titles	855	(5)
Index of Terms	860