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.
Description from LibreTexts.
- 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