Loose Leaf for Critical Thinking with Connect Access Card

by Gregory Bassham, William Irwin, Henry Nardone

Bassham's popular text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. Using a proven step-by-step approach, this text covers all the basics of critical thinking in clear, reader-friendly language. The 5th edition has taken into account suggestions from users and reviewers of previous editions, and has added an Appendix, and new readings, exercises and examples throughout the text. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. It provides tools that make assessment easier, learning more engaging, and studying more efficient. For instance, Connect contains SmartBook , the first and only adaptive reading experience available for the higher education market. Powered by the intelligent and adaptive LearnSmart engine, SmartBook facilitates the reading process by identifying what content a student knows and doesn’t know. As a student reads Critical Thinking , the material continuously adapts to ensure that he or she is focused on the content most crucial to closing specific knowledge gaps.

Genres: Philosophy, Textbooks, Nonfiction, School, Reference, Academic

Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Grandy Putra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why wouldn't everyone rate this book 5 stars? This book is the absolute prevention guide from stupidity. Must read!

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Spectacularly shallow and uncritical authors have produced a critical thinking guide. With amusing results. Subjectivity. Emotion. The mostly irrational nature of the human. All ignored for a comfortable and stupid "now I know". Amazing what damage Plato can do more than two thousand years *after* his death.

[Sylvester · Rating 2 out of 5]

This critical thinking guide is really only suited for a high school student at most. The content was biased itself and really elementary.

[Rory Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

A (hefty) overview of a range of different factors which are relevant to ‘good’ thinking. This includes the skills of arguing and the skills of avoiding relevant fallacies. And it goes considerably further, providing chapters which engage with the issues of using Media and Science (or pseudo-science).

A strong feature of the book are the well-conceived exercises for students. They generally include both breadth and depth, and they also include enough material so that there is genuine choice for teachers to select, adapt and apply the materials without having to feel pressure to seek additional materials.

The book has now been through multiple editions in the 10 years since it was first published. That time has been used well, reviewing and remodelling aspects of the book to ensure that it is a properly effective way of exploring the kinds of thinking skills issues which feature on typical examination syllabi, as well as those which are increasingly included as core parts of many courses.

Overall, this is a good text book for a course on critical thinking. Its size means that it is not necessarily the easiest for an individual student to access for revision or extra reading, but students who choose to do so will almost certainly learn from it. The complexity of the issues and the text means that it is a book which will probably be enjoyed most by upper High School students and College students.

[King · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has changed my way of thinking a little bit.. :)

[Ikrama · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have peaked.

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had only two colors in it: black and dark blue, so it was rather boring to look at. But the information, for the most part, was actually quite helpful in retrospect. I need this book for my Critical Thinking: Parks and Recreation class. We only read chapters 1-9 (excluding 7) and chapter 12. I didn't think I learned a lot from this class, but in retrospect, I did, especially the parts about the logical fallacies.

My roommate said that she felt the riots in Baltimore were are good thing because destroyed property was okay if it was for the cause of Black Lives Matter. I realized she was committing the logical fallacy of Two Wrongs Make a Right. Not that I would have told her that: she would have ripped my throat out. (And I'm not saying what happened in Baltimore months ago wasn't tragic, just that her personal line of thinking had a common fallacy).

But it is always nice when you can directly apply something you have learned from a textbook to real life. I got the most out of the logical fallacies chapters, but this textbook was helpful and I did take something back from it.

[Mutya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book about 4 years ago and I can say that it’s a perfect book to start with if you want to hone your logical thinking from the basic. The examples given helped a lot to comprehend each topic in real life situation.

[Ashley]

MODR 1710 Reasoning in Women and Sexism York University (Fall/Winter 2010-2011)- Dr. A Falikowski

[Whitnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As far as text books go this one was alright. A lot of good information and useful skills.

[Prasetya Tegar Fitriaji · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book give you a lot of informations about standards and bariers for think critically, how to identifying and analyzing argument, etc. And there are exercises as well. perfect!