Bowel T., Kemp G. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide

2nd ed. — Routledge, 2005. — 321 p.Attempts to persuade us - to believe something, to do something, to buy something - are everywhere. How can we learn to think critically about such attempts and to distinguish those that actually provide us with good reasons for being persuaded? Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is.
a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one.Why should we become critical thinkers?
Logic: deductive validity.
Logic: inductive force.
Rhetorical ploys and fallacies.
The practice of argument-reconstruction.
Issues in argument assessment.
Truth, knowledge and belief.