Critical Thinking for College Students

Jon Stratton has taught critical thinking, informal logic, and symbolic logic at Walla Walla Community College in Washington State for over twenty-five years.

Finally, a text that is not only about critical reasoning but is itself an excellent piece of philosophical thinking in its own right. We have needed a book like this for a long time. . . . It meets students where they are and takes them to a fresh and interesting engagement with the world of thinking.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Thinking, the Body, the Brain, and LanguageChapter 3 A Closer Look at Critical ThinkingPart 4 Verbal ThinkingChapter 5 The Nature of Language and the Standards of Critical ThinkingChapter 6 Attitudinal Standards and EmpathyPart 7 Logical ThinkingChapter 8 Elements of Organization of ArgumentChapter 9 Evaluating ArgumentsChapter 10 Fallacies and the Eight Steps of Argument EvaluationPart 11 Verbal and Logical ThinkingChapter 12 EvidenceChapter 13 Application: The FormatPart 14 Verbal, Logical, and Intuitive ThinkingChapter 15 Critical Thinking in the Home, at Work, and in the CommunityChapter 16 AppendixChapter 17 Suggested ReadingChapter 18 IndexChapter 19 About the Author