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The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims Paperback – 31 Aug. 2012

• Print length 604 pages
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• Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date 31 Aug. 2012
• Dimensions 19.69 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
• ISBN-10 0199856672
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford Univ Pr; 4th edition (31 Aug. 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 604 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199856672
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199856671
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm

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Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several books, including: Philosophy Here and Now (2013); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Second Edition (2013); Great Philosophical Arguments (2012); Classics of Philosophy (2011); Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Eighth Edition (2012); How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, Sixth Edition (2011); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, Third Edition (2013); Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, Fourth Edition (2010); The Moral Life, Fourth Edition (2011); and Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (OUP, 2005).

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 4th edition (March 7 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199018685
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199018680
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 kg
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 1.7 x 25.4 cm
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Lewis vaughn.

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several books, including: Philosophy Here and Now (2013); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Second Edition (2013); Great Philosophical Arguments (2012); Classics of Philosophy (2011); Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Eighth Edition (2012); How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, Sixth Edition (2011); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, Third Edition (2013); Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, Fourth Edition (2010); The Moral Life, Fourth Edition (2011); and Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (OUP, 2005).

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Chris MacDonald is a philosopher who teaches ethics and critical thinking at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of the popular Business Ethics Blog, and co-author of the online Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.

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Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life Fourth Edition

Written by international authorities on critical thinking, this book details an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary. It provides students with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions—thinking, feeling, motivating—influence one another.

Critical Thinking fosters the development of fair-minded critical thinking and explores essential intellectual standards of clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness; the importance of skilled and deep questioning; and how to take thinking apart in order to find problems in thinking and then improve thinking.

The fourth edition features

• Think for Yourself activities
• Glossary of critical thinking terms
• New chapter on argumentation
• New chapters on critical thinking in the professions (including critique of disciplines)
• Discussion of the Internet's effects on our lives
• Updated discussions of media bias and political propaganda, as well as egocentric and sociocentric thought as barriers to critical thinking

The Foundation for Critical Thinking continually offers new supplementary resources on its website (www.CriticalThinking.org) and in its online critical thinking community (www.CriticalThinkingCommunity.org).

• ISBN-10 1538138743
• ISBN-13 978-1538138748
• Edition Fourth
• Publisher The Foundation for Critical Thinking
• Publication date February 1, 2022
• Language English
• Dimensions 8.09 x 0.98 x 10.06 inches
• Print length 642 pages
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This book is well-written, lucid and contains abundant examples and applications that not only enliven the subject matter but present relevant contexts for building understanding and advanced critical thinking.

A comprehensive and robust textbook. Richard Paul and Linda Elder offer a model of critical thinking that can be applied not only to academic disciplines but also to life in general.

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Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essentials to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking and authored more than 200 articles, seven books, and 24 thinker’s guides on the topic. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and leading authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for more than 25 years. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective. She has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder is the author of Liberating the Mind , and has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Foundation for Critical Thinking; Fourth edition (February 1, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 642 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538138743
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538138748
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.09 x 0.98 x 10.06 inches
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As Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking and Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, Dr. Paul is an internationally recognized authority on critical thinking, with eight books and over 200 articles on the subject. He has written books for every grade level and has done extensive experimentation with teaching tactics and strategies, and devising, among other things, novel ways to engage students in rigorous self-assessment.

Dr. Paul has received four degrees and has given lectures on critical thinking at many universities in both the United States and abroad, including Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the universities of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, British Columbia, Toronto, and Amsterdam. He taught beginning and advanced courses in critical thinking at the university level for over 20 years. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Distinguished Philosopher (by the Council for Philosophical Studies, 1987), O.C. Tanner Lecturer in Humanities (by Utah State University, 1986), Lansdown Visiting Scholar (by the University of Victoria, 1987), and the Alfred Korsybski Memorial Lecturer (by the Institute for General Semantics, 1987).

His views on critical thinking have been canvassed in the New York Times, Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Teacher, Reader’s Digest, Educational Leadership, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report. For more information about Dr. Paul and the work of the Center and Foundation for Critical Thinking, go to www.criticalthinking.org

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