Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills 7 Chapter 1: Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking 9
Chapter 2: Peering into the Mind: How People Think 21
Chapter 3: Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking 41
Chapter 4: Assessing Your Thinking Skills 65 Part II: Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills 91
Chapter 5: Critical Thinking Is Like Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy 93
Chapter 6: Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion 113
Chapter 7: Drawing on Graphical (and Other) Tools for Thinking 133
Chapter 8: Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies 159 Part III: Applying Critical Thinking in Practice 175
Chapter 9: Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) Matter 177
Chapter 10: Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills 199
Chapter 11: Speaking and Listening Critically: Effective Learning 217 Part IV: Reason and Argument 235
Chapter 12: Unlocking the Logic of Real Arguments 237
Chapter 13: Behaving Like a Rational Animal 259
Chapter 14: Using Words to Persuade: The Art of Rhetoric 275
Chapter 15: Presenting Evidence and Justifying Opinions 293 Part V: The Part of Tens 317
Chapter 16: Ten Logical Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them 319
Chapter 17: Ten Arguments that Changed the World 327 Index 339