A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues - Second edition, revised and updated
by David C. Wilson
A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It 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. From there it 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 Open Textbook Library.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
- Year
- 1999
- Subjects
- Humanities, Humanities - Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry
- Licence
- Attribution-NonCommercial, as Open Textbook Library states it. Non-commercial use only.
- Who can read
- Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects