The Power of Critical Thinking Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims

by Vaughn, Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780190852818
• ISBN10: 019085281X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-09-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Sixth 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.

Author Biography

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several textbooks, including Philosophy Here and Now, Third Edition (2018), Writing Philosophy, Second Edition (2018), Living Philosophy, Second Edition (2017), and Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (2017), all published by Oxford University Press.