The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking (Elements of Philosophy)

Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning.

The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues:
· Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes.
·General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments.
·Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony.
·Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations.
·A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables.
·Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty.
·A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities.
·An extended discussion of informal fallacies.
·An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing.