Thinking

by Gary R. Kirby

This book about thinking presents readers with a systematic, practical, and friendly approach that encompasses all fields of study and business. It explores a valuable skill that will inspire and enlarge people's ability to think through life. Chapter topics cover what thinking is, personal barriers, sensing, brain and memory, language, feeling, creative thinking, organizing, logical thinking, scientific thinking, persuasive thinking, problem solving, evaluating, decision and action, and the challenge to go on thinking. They draw ideas on thinking from every period of history–from the philosophers, poets, scientists, psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists. For thinkers of the new millenium.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy

368 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 1998

Reviews

[Marichee]

This book depended on quotation too much to get its points across. Its breakdown of syllogism and logical architecture didn't work for half the students in the class.

It'd probably be OK to leaf through during a rainy afternoon, but only if you're really bored.