{"id":250,"date":"2016-07-20T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:46:31","slug":"critical-thinking-evaluating-claims-and-arguments-in-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/20\/critical-thinking-evaluating-claims-and-arguments-in-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Thinking: Evaluating Claims and Arguments in Everyday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have taught courses in critical thinking under the guise of &#8220;logic&#8221; as well as under the guise of \u201cintroduction to philosophy.\u201d One of the best textbooks on critical thinking was (and perhaps still is)<i> Critical Thinking: Evaluating Claims and Arguments in Everyday Life<\/i>, by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker. \u00a0I have the 2d edition. Searching the Internet, I found that there currently is an\u00a012<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>edition [cost, about $190]. But more interesting is that someone in China has placed the 9<sup>th<\/sup> edition on the Internet as a pdf file. So, before the copy disappears for some reason or other, download it while you can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fdjpkc.fudan.edu.cn\/_upload\/article\/10\/90\/88bc33024683a80cd4da88fc41f0\/b44b90d4-3455-4eca-9e9c-31011233c3d1.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this post, I am recommending that you read Chapter 4: <i>Credibility<\/i> and Chapter 5: <i>Persuasion Through Rhetoric<\/i>. These two chapters could be called \u201cBullshitting (especially in the News and Advertising Media) by language, pictures, and movies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taught courses in critical thinking under the guise of &#8220;logic&#8221; as well as under the guise of \u201cintroduction to philosophy.\u201d One of the best textbooks on critical thinking was (and perhaps still is) Critical Thinking: Evaluating Claims and Arguments in Everyday Life, by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker. \u00a0I have the 2d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/20\/critical-thinking-evaluating-claims-and-arguments-in-everyday-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critical Thinking: Evaluating Claims and Arguments in Everyday Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-escaping-bullshit","category-linguistic-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}