Richard Paul, Linda Elder

Critical Thinking (eBook, ePUB)

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Use better thinking to empower yourself, discover opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, build wealth, and achieve your biggest goals! This is your complete, up-to-the-minute blueprint for assessing and improving the way you think about everything - from business decisions to personal relationships. Drs. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder, of the Center for Critical Thinking, offer specific guidance for making more intelligent decisions, and overcoming the irrationalities and sociocentric limits we all face. Discover which of the "six stages" of thinking you're in and learn how to think with clarity, relevance, logic, accuracy, depth, significance, precision, breadth, and fairness. Master strategic thinking skills you can use everywhere and learn how to critically assess what experts tell you. Packed with new examples and exercises, this guide won't just help you think more effectively: it will help you use those skills to empower yourself, discover new opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, and grow your wealth. Above all, it will help you gain the confidence and clarity you need to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life - whatever they are!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538139530
• Artikelnr.: 60002604

Autorenporträt

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essentials to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking and authored more than 200 articles and seven books on the topic. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Become A Fairminded Thinker
Chapter 2. The First Four Stages of Development: At What Level of Thinking
Would You Place Yourself?
Chapter 3. Self-Understanding in a Complex World
Chapter 4. The Parts of Thinking
Chapter 5. Standards for Thinking
Chapter 6. Ask Questions That Lead to Good Thinking
Chapter 7. Master the Thinking, Master the Content
Chapter 8. Discover How the Best Thinkers Learn
Chapter 9. Redefine Grades as Levels of Thinking and Learning
Chapter 10. Make Decisions and Solve Problems
Chapter 11. Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking
Chapter 12. Deal with Your Irrational Mind
Chapter 13. Develop as an Ethical Reasoner
Chapter 14. How to Detect Media Bias and Political Propaganda
Chapter 15. Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation
Chapter 16. Learning & Using Information Critically & Ethically, Part One
Chapter 17. Learning & Using Information Critically & Ethically, Part Two
Chapter 18. Strategic Thinking: Part One
Chapter 19. Strategic Thinking: Part Two
Chapter 20. Becoming An Advanced Thinker: Our Conclusion
Appendices
A. A Brief History of The Idea of Critical Thinking
B. Sample Analysis of The Logic of . . .
Glossary
References