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Author(s): Susan T. Gardner
ISBN(s): 9781592138678, 1592138675
Edition: Illustrated
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Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1592138683
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Author: Susan Gardner
 

Thinking Your Way to Freedom is a critical-thinking textbook with a difference. Rather than focusing exclusively on improving college students’ academic achievement, Susan Gardner seeks to dramatically change how students think through issues that are important in their lives beyond school. Gardner created 66 original and entertaining comic strips—featuring her dogs, Diva and Ben—that add a light touch as they encourage intellectual and personal autonomy. Through a clear step-by-step method of practical reasoning, students are taught how to think impartially and how to neutralize invisible biases that limit their freedom of thought and action. With the help of Diva and Ben, readers learn to evaluate the strengths of arguments and to recognize fallacies, all the while avoiding the paralyzing effects of relativism. Thinking Your Way to Freedom includes the writing of short essays so that students can improve their critical thinking and writing at the same time. A Teacher’s Manual for this book will be available online.

Thinking Your Way to Freedom A Guide to Owning Your Own Practical Reasoning 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1: Theory

Section 1: The Possibility of Freedom

The Goal, Surely, Must Be Freedom

How is Freedom Possible?

Negative Freedom, or Self-Direection

Positive Freedom, or Autonomy

The Dynamics of Value

Getting Control of Your Own Values

Freedom Through the Impartial Examination of Values

Section 2: Impartial Thinking

Bias Neutralization is an Inter- (Not Intra-) Subjective Process

Judging Quality: Estimating “Truth” Through Falsification

Establishing “Truth” through a Falsification Process is Not Possible, but Estimating “truth”

Truth Seeking in Ethics

Practical Reasonining Is Inevitably a Two-Step Falsification Process

Talking to the Relativist

The Message

Postscript: Freedom Needs Determinism

Review Questions

Answers to Review Questions

Part II: Practice

Section 1: Learning the Intricacles of Practical Reasoning

1. Knowing What to Look For: Reasons Versus Evidence

2. Pushing Toward Precision

3. Taking a Look at your own Values (and coming up wiht Good Thesis Statements)

4. Common “Informal” Faults or Fallacies

1. Begging the Question

2. Ad Hominem/Ad Feminam Attack

3. Appeal to Authority

4. Strawperson

5. Slippery Slope

6. False Dilemma

7. Distinction without a Difference

8. Post Hoc Fallacy

9. Analogies: Good and Faulty

10. Fallacy of the Golden Mean

5. What Kind of Arguments is it?

6. Seeing the Whole Argument: A Valid Deductive Argument is a Necessary Condition for Evaluating Rea

7. Evaluating Reasons or Soundness (Local Sufficiency)

8. Evaluating the Local Sufficency of your own and your opposition’s positions

9. Evaluating the Global Sufficiency of your own position

10. Avoiding “Rotweiler Flips”: Getting your counterexamples straight

11. Are you making a claim about a sufficient or a necessary condition?

12. Back to seeing the whole argument: Finding the hidden premise in forced-choice situations

13. Responding to incorrect counterexamples

14. Deducing from conditional or “all” claims: Valid and Invalid Moves

15. Overview

Post-Test

Post-Test 1: What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Post-Test 2: Logic

A Personal Good-bye

Section 2: Thinking and Writing Your Way to Truth

Interactive Learning in Your Imagination

What a Good (Impartial) Argument Looks Like

Detailed Analysis of the Five Essential Argument Constituents

1. A Clear Thesis Statement in Support of One Side of a Highly Contentious Issue

2. A Convincing Support for the Thesis Statement

3. Articulation of a Strong Opposition

4. A Convincing Responses to the Opposition

5. A Convincing Resolution or Conclusion to the Posed Problem

Summary for Evaluating the Five Essential Argument Constituents

Inveractive Reasoning

Appendix I: Answers to Exercises

Appendix II: Analyzing Arguments

Appendix III: Examples of Good Arguments

Appendix IV: What “Good” and “Poor” Thinkers Look Like

Appendix V: Answers to Pre-tests and Post-tests

Pre-test 1: What Kind of Thinker Are You Scoring

Post-test 2: Logic Answers

Notes

Glossary

Index

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