Beschreibung:
This is an unusual book-in many respects. It's born out of a frustration teaching Critical Thinking courses over the years and feeling that the most interesting issues raised in those courses are typically either ignored altogether, or quickly brushed aside, by the 'normal' Critical Thinking text. The effect was that a Critical Thinking course was a smattering of Baby Logic, some very simple Intro to Statistics and Probability, add in the usual Informal Fallacies and some beating up on the Media and Politicians, and you've got the course. If, as a teacher, one sticks to this ordinary canon, one can quickly become either stupefied (taking with oneself a good portion of the students) or one can take flight into invigorating tangents relating to real philosophical meat, but in so doing, leave the text long behind.