From Abracadabra to Zombies
Ordering information
Becoming
a Critical Thinker
A Guide for the New Millennium 2nd
edition
Pearson 2005
by Robert Todd Carroll
ISBN 0 - 536 - 85934 - 5
(free chapter downloads, click here)
The book can be ordered from from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
Addenda are posted at http://classes.skepdic.com/bactaddenda.html
Becoming
a Critical Thinker
A Guide for the New Millennium
Pearson 2000
by Robert Todd Carroll
ISBN 0 - 536 - 60060 - 0
The book can be
ordered from
Amazon.com.
Addenda are posted at http://classes.skepdic.com/bactaddenda.html
Note: The second edition features significant revisions in chapters 1, 2,
and 3. Chapters 7 and 8 have been moderately revised, and chapter 9 has been
updated. You may preview chapter one (Adobe Reader required) by clicking
here.
Teachers interested in a review copy should contact Pearson Custom Publishing.
Table of contents for the new edition.
1.
Critical Thinking
(click to download)
2.
Language and
Critical Thinking
(click to download)
3. Sources
(click to download)
4. Identifying Arguments
5. Evaluating Arguments
6. Evaluating Extended Arguments
7. Sampling and Analogical Reasoning
8.
Causal Reasoning
9. Science and Pseudoscience
Answers to Selected Exercises (note ch. 4 graphs are incomplete)
Glossary
Also available for free download are booklets I wrote to help students develop their study and writing skills: Student Success Guide: Study Skills and Student Success Guide: Writing Skills.
