The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 153813375X

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The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking explores the practice of analyzing problems and opportunities and provides a framework for finding common denominators, inconsistencies, biases, and underlying causes. It helps readers learn to think within the logic of subjects and professions. By offering proper tools for analysis and assessment of thought, it empowers readers to address any decision with confidence. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities

81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities

Author: Laurie Rozakis

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780590375269

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Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.


The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

Author: Richard Paul

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1538133784

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In The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies. Independent of religious or cultural norms, ethical concepts promote sustainable advancement and offer a framework by which all people can not only coexist but prosper. Exploring the nature of ethical reasoning, the guide reveals the most common ways ethical reasoning becomes flawed and teaches readers how to avoid these flaws. It lays out the function of ethics and its main impediments, the social counterfeits of ethics, the elements of ethical reasoning, important ethical abilities and traits, a vocabulary of ethics, and intellectual standards essential to assessing ethical reasoning. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking

The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1538133768

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The Aspiring Thinker’s Guide to Critical Thinking introduces concepts and strategies for developing essential reasoning skills and intellectual character. As students advance in their academic studies and encounter new situations in their lives, they must learn to differentiate fact from fiction and make decisions based in good reasoning. They must learn to be clear, accurate, relevant, logical, and fair when expressing ideas. This book lays out a clear framework for guiding this development and encouraging lifelong intellectual curiosity. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living

25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0131738593

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This quick, 25-day plan for thinking more clearly and effectively in every area of life shows readers how desires and emotions distort thinking and how they can correct such situations.


Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

Author: Richard Paul

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1538139537

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Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent. Richard Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.


The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1538133776

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The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies introduces the concept of mental trickery and shows readers how to discern and see through forty-four different types of fallacies. Focusing on how human self-deception and manipulation lie behind fallacies, this guide builds reasoning skills and promotes fairminded, logical thought, discussions, and debate. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.