Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning

by Francis Watanabe Dauer

A demanding introduction to logic and critical thinking, this book offers more traditional means of teaching the art of reasoning at a time when the field has become almost mathematical. Francis Dauer has rethought the framework for teaching reasoning in general and formal logic in
particular, the desired epistemological context, and the role of the fallacies. The result is a coherent and very readable work, informed by Dauer's extensive experience teaching and writing on the subject.

Genres: Philosophy, Logic, Science, Nonfiction

560 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[JOHN-MICHAEL KUCZYNSKI · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wooden and clumsy. Loaded with alienating formalisms. What the man lacked in insight and creativity, he seemed to make up for in vitriol, expressed in the form of irrelevant eight-grade mathematics.