A Guide to Good Reasoning Cultivating Intellectual Virtues

A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation...

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Main Author: Wilson, David C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing [1999]
Edition:Second edition, revised and updated
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505 0 |a Part One: Reasoning and Arguments -- Chapter One: Good Reasoning -- Chapter Two: What Makes an Argument? -- Part Two: Clarifying Arguments -- Chapter Three: A Framework for Clarifying -- Chapter Four: Streamlining -- Chapter Five: Specifying -- Chapter Six: Structuring -- Part Three: Evaluating Arguments -- Chapter Seven: A Framework for Evaluating -- Chapter Eight: Fallacies -- Part Four: Evaluating the Truth of the Premises -- Chapter Nine: How to Think About Truth -- Part Five: Evaluating Deductive Logic -- Chapter Ten: How to Think About Deductive Logic -- Chapter Eleven: If–Then Arguments -- Chapter Twelve: Either–Or Arguments and More -- Part Six: Evaluating Inductive Logic -- Chapter Thirteen: How to Think About Inductive Logic -- Chapter Fourteen: Inductive Generalization -- Chapter Fifteen: Arguments from Analogy -- Chapter Sixteen: Explanatory Arguments -- -- 
520 0 |a A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues. From there it develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fits the premises, whether the argument fits the conversation, and whether it is possible to tell. 
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