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Becoming a Critical ThinkerBecoming a Critical Thinker
A Guide for the New Millennium
Pearson 2000
by Robert Todd Carroll
ISBN 0 - 536 - 60060 - 0

 


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Addenda are posted at

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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.

Becoming a Critical Thinker
A Guide for the New Millennium 2nd edition
Pearson 2005

by Robert Todd Carroll
ISBN 0 - 536 - 85934 - 5

 

 

The book can be ordered from  from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

Addenda are posted at http://classes.skepdic.com/bactaddenda.html

Teachers interested in a review copy should contact Pearson Custom Publishing.

Table of contents for the new edition.

1. Critical Thinking (click to download chapter one)
2. Language and Critical Thinking
3. Sources
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
Glossary

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