Critical Thinking

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In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every studentâe(tm)s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes chapters on the…

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In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every studentâe(tm)s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes chapters on the nature and structure of argument, the role of relevance, truth and generalizations, and the subtleties of verbal and visual language.
Special features include:âe¢ an emphasis on the constructive aspect of critical thinkingâestrengthening the arguments of others and constructing sound arguments of your ownâerather than an exclusive focus on spotting faulty argumentsâe¢ actual questions from standardized reasoning tests like the LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, and GREâe¢ graduated end-of-chapter exercises, asking students to think critically about what they see, hear, read, write, and discussâe¢ numerous sample arguments from books, magazines, television, and the Internet for students to analyzeâe¢ many images for critical analysisâe¢ analyzed arguments that help students to read critically and activelyâe¢ an extensive companion website for instructors and studentsA companion website features:âe¢ for instructors: an extensive instructorâe(tm)s manual; a test bank; and PowerPoint slidesâe¢ for students: extended answers, explanations, and analyses for the exercises and arguments in the book; supplementary chapters on logic and ethics; downloadable MP3 study guides; interactive flash cards; and thinking critically audio exercises.www.routledge.com/textbooks/tittle

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Peg Tittle

9780415997133

eng

Routledge

02-28-2011

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873

PLEASE NOTE: It Wasn't Enough, Impact, and Gender Fraud: a fiction will be available in print in July 2020.

Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta, 2020), Impact (Magenta, 2020), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta, 2020), What Happened to Tom (Inanna, 2016), and Exile (Rock's Mills Press, 2018). What Happened to Tom is on goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue.

Her screenplays (including What Happened to Tom and Exile) have placed in several competitions, including Moondance, Fade-In, GimmeCredit, WriteMovies, Scriptapalooza, and American Gem.

She has also written several nonfiction books: Just Think About It (Magenta); Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (Magenta); Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge); Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus); What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman); Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview).

She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (her TransGendered Courage received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and her Ethics without Philosophers received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. In addition, her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Inroads, Elenchus, South Australian Humanist Post, Forum, and The Humanist. Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's (Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren't Getting Published Today). She now blogs (sporadically) at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.

She has an M.A. in Philosophy, a B.Ed., and a B.A. in Literature, and has received over twenty Arts Council grants.

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