Invitation to Critical Thinking (with InfoTrac) - Softcover

Rudinow, Joel; Barry, Vincent E.

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9780155058835: Invitation to Critical Thinking (with InfoTrac)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155058835 ISBN 13: 9780155058835

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2003

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As with successful previous editions, the Fifth Edition of INVITATION TO CRITICAL THINKING continues to focus on the recognition, analysis, evaluation, and composition of arguments as discursive tools of rational persuasion. Fostering discussions of critical thinking and its application in mass media, effective writing, and problem solving, this book introduces students to a wide variety of strategies for identifying and analyzing arguments in the world about them. This latest edition features integrated and innovative WebTutor technology developed by Judith Hawkins. This online battery of tools provides critical thinking students with an unprecedented variety of interactive exercises to facilitate increased retention and application of the most essential concepts in critical thinking.

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Joel Rudinow received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Western Ontario, Dartmouth College, and Sonoma State University. He is currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Santa Rosa Junior College and co-author of ETHICS AND VALUES IN THE INFORMATION AGE.

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