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CRITICAL THINKING A CONCISE GUIDE TRACY BOWELL GARY KEMP ® Cri cal Thinking This is the best single text | have seen for addressing the level, presumptions, and interests of the non-specialist. The authors. have a fine knack for articulating simply and clearly the most elementary ~ but also the most important - aspects of critical thinking in a way that should be clear to the novice. Charles Ess, Drury University Attempts to persuade us — to believe something, to do something, to bay something ~ are everywhere. What is less clear is how to think critically about such attempts and how to distinguish those that are sound argu ments. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is « much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and ratien- ally for oneself. Through clear and accessible discussion, this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. Key features of the book include: Clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation, How to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as ‘truth’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘opinion’. How to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument. @ How to spot fallacies in argaments and tell good reasoning from bad * Topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music; chapter summaries; glossary and exercises throughout. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone, stu- dent or professional, at work or in the classroom, seeking to improve their reasoning and arguing skills. For further exercises and information, please go to www.routledge. comv/textbooks/criticalthinking Tracy Bowell is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Dr Gary Kemp is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. First published 2002 by Routledge 11 New Feter Lane, London ECAP 4EE Simultaneously published in she USA and Canada by Routledge: 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is wn imprin: of the Taylor & Francis Group ‘This edition published in the Taylor & Francise-Library, 2001 © 2002 Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp All rights reserved. No part of this book: may be reprineed or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, ‘mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocepying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A catalogue record for this book is avallale from the Brieish Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bowell, Tracy, 1965- Crixial ehinking: a concise guie/Tracy Bowell fe Gary Kemp. bem Includbs index ISHN 0-415-24016~6 (alk. paper] ~ ISBN 0-415-24017—4 (pbk: alk. paper) 1. Critical thinking. 1. Kemp, Gary, 1960 Oct. 1S- IL. Tile 809.2 .B69 2001 16-421 2001031914 ISBN O-415-24016~6 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-24017—4 (ph) ISBN 0-203-19375-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-19378-4 (Glassbook Format)

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