A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues

by David Carl Wilson

A Guide to Good Reasoning shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues and develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fits the premises, whether the argument fits the conversation, and whether it is possible to tell.

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Publisher
Webster University
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. Licensing
  7. Licensing
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface to the Second Edition
  10. Preface to the First Edition
  11. 1: Part One- Reasoning and Arguments
  12. 1.1: Chapter One - Good Reasoning
  13. 1.2: Chapter Two - What Makes an Argument?
  14. 2: Part Two- Clarifying Arguments
  15. 2.1: Chapter Three - A Framework for Clarifying
  16. 2.2: Chapter Four - Streamlining
  17. 2.3: Chapter Five - Specifying
  18. 2.4: Chapter Six- Structuring
  19. 3: Part Three- Evaluating Arguments
  20. 3.1: Chapter Seven - A Framework for Evaluating
  21. 3.2: Chapter Eight - Fallacies
  22. 4: Part Four - Evaluating the Truth of the Premises
  23. 4.1: Chapter Nine - How to Think About Truth
  24. 5: Part Five - Evaluating Deductive Logic
  25. 5.1: Chapter Ten - How to Think About Deductive Logic
  26. 5.2: Chapter Eleven- If–Then Arguments
  27. 5.3: Chapter Twelve - Either–Or Arguments and More
  28. 6: Part Six- Evaluating Inductive Logic
  29. 6.1: Chapter Thirteen- How to Think About Inductive Logic
  30. 6.2: Chapter Fourteen- Inductive Generalization
  31. 6.3: Chapter Fifteen- Arguments from Analogy
  32. 6.4: Chapter Sixteen- Explanatory Arguments
  33. Back Matter
  34. Index
  35. Detailed Licensing
  36. Detailed Licensing