Author: Ronald Munson, David Conway
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Aug 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: Based upon the authors' successful ELEMENTS OF REASONING, this text is an even more concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the tools to understand, analyze, criticize and construct arguments. More direct, essential coverage of basics is provided with fewer exercises.
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Aug 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: Based upon the authors' successful ELEMENTS OF REASONING, this text is an even more concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the tools to understand, analyze, criticize and construct arguments. More direct, essential coverage of basics is provided with fewer exercises.
Author: Hy Ruchlis
Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 2000 My Rating: 4
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Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 2000 My Rating: 4
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Author: Robert Todd Carroll, Robert T. Carroll, Kas Salazar
Publisher: Not Avail
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 2000 My Rating: 5
Summary: I have read this book and combed through it many times because of the many gold nuggets of information. Dr. Carroll writes an execellent book teaching you to think critically by educating you to decipher the difference between logical thought and non sense, tricky language, bias, selective thinking, and much more.
Dr. Carroll covers diagramming complex arguements, syllogisms, common fallacies such as begging the question, slippery slope, the gamblers fallacy, ad hominem, poison the well, irrelevant appeal to authority, ad poplum and much more.
Dr. Carroll also covers a great section on science and pseudoscience which teaches you to determine what is actually scientific or someone's dream of wishful thinking that one just won't let go, such as parapsychology.
The book starts you out with basics and then gradually introduces more material into the topic. In each chapter there are excercises to pratice your new learned skills. There are answers in the back of the book for those marked questions to see if you got the answers right.
A must buy for those seeking clarity of thought.
Publisher: Not Avail
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 2000 My Rating: 5
Summary: I have read this book and combed through it many times because of the many gold nuggets of information. Dr. Carroll writes an execellent book teaching you to think critically by educating you to decipher the difference between logical thought and non sense, tricky language, bias, selective thinking, and much more.
Dr. Carroll covers diagramming complex arguements, syllogisms, common fallacies such as begging the question, slippery slope, the gamblers fallacy, ad hominem, poison the well, irrelevant appeal to authority, ad poplum and much more.
Dr. Carroll also covers a great section on science and pseudoscience which teaches you to determine what is actually scientific or someone's dream of wishful thinking that one just won't let go, such as parapsychology.
The book starts you out with basics and then gradually introduces more material into the topic. In each chapter there are excercises to pratice your new learned skills. There are answers in the back of the book for those marked questions to see if you got the answers right.
A must buy for those seeking clarity of thought.
Author: Thomas Gilovich
Publisher: Free Press
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Mar 1993 My Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a contemporary classic that should be required reading in all psychology programs. As a psychologist, I am regularly appalled by how few trained psychologists know of the research discussed in this book, indeed, of decision science in general!! It only goes to show, there's scientific psychology (of which this book qualifies), and then, well, there's the other 99%...the crap, fluff, unsupported, unscientific, claims and practices that arise out of pseudo-scientific approaches, misinterpretations of data, and fallacious assumptions and conclusions. As an exemplar of what's good in a field rife with methodological manure and hocus pocus B.S. (e.g. psychotherapy, psychiatry, etc.), this book really shines. Read it and discover why some of psychology really is a science.
Publisher: Free Press
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Mar 1993 My Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a contemporary classic that should be required reading in all psychology programs. As a psychologist, I am regularly appalled by how few trained psychologists know of the research discussed in this book, indeed, of decision science in general!! It only goes to show, there's scientific psychology (of which this book qualifies), and then, well, there's the other 99%...the crap, fluff, unsupported, unscientific, claims and practices that arise out of pseudo-scientific approaches, misinterpretations of data, and fallacious assumptions and conclusions. As an exemplar of what's good in a field rife with methodological manure and hocus pocus B.S. (e.g. psychotherapy, psychiatry, etc.), this book really shines. Read it and discover why some of psychology really is a science.
Author: Janet E. Alexander, Marsha Ann Tate
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Web Wisdom" is an essential reference for anyone needing to evaluate or establish information quality on the World Wide Web. The book includes easy to use checklists for step-by-step quality evaluations of virtually any Web page. The checklists can also be used by Web authors to help them ensure quality information on their pages. In addition, "Web Wisdom" addresses other important issues such as understanding the ways that advertising and sponsorship may affect the quality of Web information.
Features in this unique resource include:
1. A detailed discussion of the items involved in evaluating Web information.
2. Checklists tailored to the creation and evaluation of specific Web page types (advocacy, business, informational, news, personal, entertainment).
3. More than 40 screen captures illustrating the implementation of the principles presented in the book.
4. Specific guidelines for establishing information quality when authoring a Web page, including features to enhance ease of use.
5. Discussion of copyright issues and use of meta tags.
6. A glossary of terms and bibliography of Web development references.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Genre: Logic & Critical Thinking
Release: Jan 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Web Wisdom" is an essential reference for anyone needing to evaluate or establish information quality on the World Wide Web. The book includes easy to use checklists for step-by-step quality evaluations of virtually any Web page. The checklists can also be used by Web authors to help them ensure quality information on their pages. In addition, "Web Wisdom" addresses other important issues such as understanding the ways that advertising and sponsorship may affect the quality of Web information.
Features in this unique resource include:
1. A detailed discussion of the items involved in evaluating Web information.
2. Checklists tailored to the creation and evaluation of specific Web page types (advocacy, business, informational, news, personal, entertainment).
3. More than 40 screen captures illustrating the implementation of the principles presented in the book.
4. Specific guidelines for establishing information quality when authoring a Web page, including features to enhance ease of use.
5. Discussion of copyright issues and use of meta tags.
6. A glossary of terms and bibliography of Web development references.