Chapter 1: Critical Thinking BasicsChapter 2: The Anatomy and Varieties of Arguments Chapter 3: Clear Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Clear Writing Chapter 4: Credibility Chapter 5: Persuasion through Rhetoric: Common Devices and Techniques Chapter 6: More Rhetorical Devices: Psychological and Related Fallacies Chapter 7: More FallaciesChapter 8: Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic Categorical ClaimsChapter 9: Deductive Arguments II: Truth-Functional LogicChapter 10: Inductive Arguments Analogical ArgumentsChapter 11: Causal ArgumentsChapter 12: Moral, Legal, and Aesthetic Reasoning
Brooke Moore is a professor of philosophy at California State
University, Chico, where he serves as Coordinator of the Critical
Thinking Program. A former chair of the Philosophy and History
departments, Moore was the University Outstanding Professor in
1996. He has served as a university Master Teacher and has
coordinated the universitys program for mentoring new faculty. His
publications include The Power of Ideas (with Kenneth Bruder), The
Cosmos, God, and Philosophy (with Ralph J. Moore), A Comprehensive
Introduction to Moral Philosophy (with Robert Stewart), and other
works.
Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at California
State University, Chico. He has been three times chair of the
university's Faculty Senate, Dean of Undergraduate Education, and
Executive Assistant to the President and has received Professional
Achievement Honors for his academic work. He has published in
analytic philosophy, critical thinking, and philosophy of law, and
his views on punishment and responsibility have been included in
major anthologies. Outside academia, Parker is a semiprofessional
flamenco guitarist, performing with dancers around and about
northern California; he rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, plays
golf for fun and pool for money, and spends as much time as
possible in southern Spain.
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