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Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   Preface Acknowledgments   Part I Connections Chapter 1 Why be a Critical Thinker? Chapter 2 Language Chapter 3 Knowledge and Certainty Chapter 4 Arguments and Explanations   Part II Deductive Reasoning Chapter 5 Deductive Links Chapter 6 Deductive Argument Forms   Part III Inductive Reasoning Chapter 7 Supporting Our Claims  Chapter 8 Standards of Inductive Reasoning  Chapter 9 Fallacies Chapter 10 Scientific Reasoning Chapter 11 Pseudoscience   Part IV Reasoning About Values  Chapter 12 The Nature of Morality Chapter 13 Reasoning about Good and Bad  Chapter 14 Moral Dialogue Chapter 15 Reason and Commitment   Index   2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS   Preface Acknowledgments   Part I Connections Chapter 1: Why be a Critical Thinker? Critical Thinking and the Importance of Open Dialogue What Is Critical Thinking? Euthyphro Plato Study Questions Reason and Culture Why the Geese Shrieked Isaac Bashevis Singer The Shaman and the Dying Scientist: A Brazilian Tale Alan Riding Study Questions The Limits of Reason Summary Exercises   Chapter 2: Language The Priority of Language Language and the World The Corner of the Eye Lewis Thomas Eight Little Piggies Stephen Jay Gould Study Questions Words, Statements, and Beliefs Warranted Statements Making of Americans Gertrude Stein Study Questions Factual Statements Web of Belief 9/11 Rumors That Harden into Conventional Wisdom Michael Slackman Cookies Douglas Adams Study Questions Summary Exercises   Chapter 3: Knowledge and Certainty Belief and Knowledge Knowledge and Certainty Meditations on First Philosophy in Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated   René Descartes A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Study Questions  Consensus and the Web of Belief Ideas & Trends; For Air Crash Detectives, Seeing Isn’t Believing   Matthew L. Wald President Tom’s Cabin Jill Lepore Study Questions Summary Exercises   Chapter 4: Arguments and Explanations Arguments: Premises and Conclusions Implicit Premises and Conclusions Arguments: Standard Form Logical Warranting Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning Factual Warranting The Decameron: Michele Scalza Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron: Melchizedek Giovanni Boccaccio Study Questions Explanations The Day-Care Deaths: A Mystery Linda Herskowitz Study Questions Summary Exercises   Part II Deductive Reasoning Chapter 5: Deductive Links Reasoning with Necessity Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia Thurgood Marshall Study Questions Analyzing a Deductive Argument Validity and Logical Implication Summary Exercises   Chapter 6: Deductive Argument Forms Logic Some Common Valid Argument Forms Anselm’s Ontological Argument Norman Malcolm Study Questions Anselm’s Ontological Argument Summary Exercises   Part III Inductive Reasoning Chapter 7: Supporting Our Claims  Evidence: Traces and Patterns Report on Yale Murder Outlines Suspicions James Barron And Alison Leigh Cowan Trial By Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? David Grann Study Questions Confirmation and Proof: Webs of Belief   The William Bradfield Case: Murder on the Main Line Mike Mallowe Coded Bradfield Note: ‘My Danger Conspiracy’ Emilie Lounsberry The Jury: Convinced or Confused? Emilie Lounsberry and Henry Goldman Bradfield, on Stand, Denies Any Role Emilie Lounsberry Bradfield and Women Henry Goldman Study Questions Summary Exercises   Chapter 8: Standards of Inductive Reasoning  Three Basic Forms Generalizations The Literary Digest Predicts Victory by Landon, 1936 “Digest” Poll Machinery Speeding Up Landon 1,293,669; Roosevelt, 972,897 What Went Wrong with the Polls? Study Questions Analogies Troublemakers: What Pitt Bulls Can Teach Us about Profiling Malcolm Gladwell Study Questions Causal Claims So, Smoking Causes Cancer: This Is News? Denise Grady Renewing Philosophy Hilary Putnam Study Questions Summary Exercises   Chapter 9: Fallacies The Nature of Fallacies Fallacies of Irrelevance Lost Genius Russell Baker Study Questions Fallacies of Faulty Generalization Fallacies of Emotional Manipulation Bachmann Finds an Issue With HPV Debate Trip Gabriel Study Questions Summary Exercises   Chapter 10: Scientific Reasoning Science and Good Reasoning Copernicus and Kepler The Sex Life of the Whiptail Lizard Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch Study Questions Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning Summary Exercises   Chapter 11: Pseudoscience Distinguishing Science from Pseudoscience Fliess, Freud, and Biorhythm Martin Gardner Study Questions Summary Exercises   Part IV Reasoning About Values   Chapter 12: The Nature of Morality Supporting Moral Claims Chapter I: Of the Principle of Utility Jeremy Bentham Study Questions Objectivism and Subjectivism The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Study Questions  Morality and Reasoning Summary Exercises   Chapter 13: Reasoning about Good and Bad  Making Moral Decisions Reasonable Objectivism and Reasonable Subjectivism Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant Existentialism is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre Study Questions Kant Sartre Summary Exercises   Chapter 14: Moral Dialogue Dogmatism and Relativism Euthyphro as Dogmatist Plato Classroom Scene Study Questions Moderation as Key Summary Exercises   Chapter 15: Reason and Commitment Open Rational Dialogue Keynote Speech May 18 at Simpson College’s 1996 Commencement Jane Smiley Study Questions   Index      

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Dear Colleagues,   When we first started teaching critical thinking over twenty-five years ago the available textbooks fell into two camps: some were simplified "introduction to logic" texts, while others were little more than rhetoric handbooks fortified with a section on informal fallacies. The first group offered models for critical thinking but provided no material to think critically about. The second analyzed devious ways of persuasion used in everything from advertising to politics. We soon began constructing our own materials for critical thinking, using the stories, news events, and issues that our students encountered in their daily lives. We believed then, and we believe now, that students need to learn critical thinking skills in a variety of contexts and from actual instances, not from concocted textbook examples.   Our approach to critical thinking also has a strong philosophical underpinning. This helps students understand how their own beliefs are formed and how they fit together into webs of belief and ultimately into a view of the world which is shaped by their experience and which shapes their experience. Having this philosophical understanding helps them to monitor their own critical thinking in a new way, and it helps them to understand why we sometimes have arguments with each other. All of this points to our definition of critical thinking which is open rational dialogue with our friends – and with ourselves.   We include the usual topics found in critical thinking texts such as deductive and inductive reasoning and the fallacies, but we also present critical thinking as anchored in a much broader philosophical context. Thus we include excerpts from Plato, Descartes, and Kant, among others. Moreover, we show how critical thinking applies in such diverse disciplines as history and science. Finally, we conclude Thinking Socratically with a whole section on ethics because, like Socrates, we think critical thinking can help people be better people, not just better critical thinkers.   We have found that students at every level enjoy and benefit from Thinking Socratically. It has been used around the country by students from the undergraduate to the graduate level. Even teachers in K-12 programs have used earlier editions to teach themselves how to teach critical thinking to their pre-college students. We hope that you will consider using this text if you are not using it already.   Please do not hesitate to contact us at Cabrini College with your comments, questions, and suggestions. We began this text with the desire to make our students better critical thinkers and that is still our goal – to make students everywhere more able to use critical thinking skills in their everyday lives. Our email addresses are sschwarze@cabrini.eud and hlape3@hotmail.com.   Sincerely,   Sharon Schwarze and Harvey Lape   Cabrini College