Studies in Critical Thinking

Authors

J. Anthony Blair, CRRAR, University of Windsor; Derek Allen, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Sharon Bailin, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University; Ashley Barnett; Mark Battersby, Professor Emeritus, Capilano University; Yiwen Dai, University of Maryland, College Park; Martin Davies, University of Melbourne; Robert H. Ennis, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois; Alec Fisher, University of East Anglia; Tim van Gelder, University of Melbourne; G.C. Goddu, University of Richmond; Dale Hample, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland; David Hitchcock, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University; Beth Innocenti, University of Kansas; Sally Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Justine Kingsbury, University of Waikato; Jan Albert van Laar, University of Groningen; Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University; Christopher W. Tindale, CRRAR, University of Windsor; Douglas Walton, CRRAR, University of Windsor; John Woods, Abductive Systems Group, University of British Columbia; Tracy Bowell

Synopsis

Critical thinking deserves both imaginative teaching and serious theoretical attention. Studies in Critical Thinking assembles an all-star cast to serve both.

EDITOR: J. Anthony Blair (Windsor)

INTRO:  On What Critical Thinking Is (Alec Fisher, East Anglia)

PART II On Teaching CT (Blair & Scriven)  5 Exercises: Validity (Derek Allen, Toronto), Teaching Argument Construction (Kingsbury, Waikato), C.T About Students’ Own Beliefs (Tracy Bowell, Waikato & Justine Kingsbury), Settling Conflict by Compromise (Jan Albert van Laar, Groningen), Using Arguments to Inquire (Sharon Bailin, Simon Fraser & Mark Battersby, Capilano)

PART III 7 Chapters on Argument: Arguments and CT (J. Anthony Blair), The Concept of an Argument (David Hitchcock, McMaster), Using Computer Aided Argument Mapping to Teach CT (Martin Davies, Ashley Barnett, Tim van Gelder, Melbourne), Argument Schemes and Argument Mining (Douglas Walton, Windsor), Constructing Effective Arguments (Beth Innocenti, Kansas), Judging Arguments (Blair), Introduction to Fallaciousness (Christopher Tindale, Windsor).

PART IV 7 Chapters on Useful Background for CT: How a Critical Thinkeer Uses the Web (Sally Jackson, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Definition (Robert Ennis, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Generalizing (Dale Hample & Yiwen Dai, Maryland), Appeals to Authorit8y: Sources & Experts (Mark Battersby), Logic and CT, (G.C. Goddu, Richmond), Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation (John Woods, British Columbia). The Unruly Logic of Evaluation (Michael Scriven, Claremont)

Author Biography

J. Anthony Blair, CRRAR, University of Windsor

J. Anthony Blair is a pioneer of the informal logic movement, co-authoring with Ralph H. Johnson the influential textbook Logical Self-Defense. With Robert C. Pinto and Katharine E. Parr, he wrote the critical thinking textbook, Reasoning, A Practical Guide. He is a founder and editor of the journal Informal Logic. He has published extensively in informal logic, critical thinking and argumentation. A selection of his papers appeared in his Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation (Springer, 2012). He was appointed a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor, and has received the International Society for the Study of Argumentation’s Distinguished Scholarship Award in recognition of a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of argumentation. He is presently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at Windsor, which offers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in argumentation studies.

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Published

March 27, 2019

Series

Windsor Studies in Argumentation
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ISBN-13 (15)

978-0920233863

Date of first publication (11)

2019-03-01

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