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Concise Principles of Reasoning
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Concise, yet covering all the basics of a 15-week course in informal logic or critical reasoning, this text engages students with a lively format and clear writing style. The small scale of the book keeps the cost low, a vital consideration in today’s economy, yet without compromising on logical rigor.
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The author’s presentation strikes a careful balance: it offers clear, jargon-free writing while preserving rigor. Brimming with numerous pedagogical features, this accessible text assists students with analysis, reconstruction, and evaluation of arguments and helps them become independent, analytical thinkers. Introductory students are exposed to the basic principles of reasoning while also having their appetites whetted for future courses in philosophy.
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Teaching and Learning Experience
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Improve Critical Thinking - Abundant pedagogical aids -- including exercises and study questions within each chapter -- encourage students to examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more!
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Engage Students - Chapter and section outlines, summaries, illustrative examples, special-emphasis boxes and key terms present new ideas in manageable-sized units of information so students can digest each concept before moving on to the next one, and ensure students key-in on crucial points to remember.
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Support Instructors -Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Plus, this concise textbook contains only as much material as you can cover in a course, creating an affordable alternative you can assign with confidence to a cost-conscious student population. Additionally, each chapter in How to Think Logically is designed as a self-contained unit so that you can choose the combination and order of chapters according to the needs of your courses; making the text a flexible base for courses in logic, critical thinking, and rhetoric.
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- The authors' clear and direct writing style makes technical concepts in logic easier to understand without compromising rigorous treatment and thorough coverage.
- Abundant pedagogical aids -- including exercises and study questions within each chapter -- enable students to learn logic by applying what they’ve studied. Additionally, sample responses are provided where appropriate, and answers to selected exercises appear at the back of the book. (ex. p. 365)
- Each chapter starts with a chapter outline listing the learning objectives, and then concludes with a chapter summary that reinforces the concepts presented. (ex. p. 3)
- Numerous section summaries appear within each chapter to ensure students key in on crucial points to remember. (ex. p. 27)
- Illustrative examples and special-emphasis boxes throughout the text present new ideas in manageable-sized units of information, so students can digest each concept before moving on to the next one. (ex. p. 35)
- At the end of each chapter is a list of Key Terms, which are defined in the glossary at the end of the book. (ex. p. 23)
- How to Think Logically contains only as much material as you can cover in a course, creating an affordable alternative you can assign with confidence to a cost-conscious student population.
- Each chapter in How to Think Logically is designed as a self-contained unit so that you can choose the combination and order of chapters according to the needs of your courses; making the text a flexible base for courses in logic, critical thinking, and rhetoric.
- Instructor’s Manual with Tests (0205155340): For each chapter in the text, this resource provides a detailed outline, list of objectives, discussion questions, and suggested readings. In addition, test questions in multiple-choice, true/ false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer formats are available for each chapter; the answers are page-referenced to the text. For easy access, this manual is available within the instructor section of MyReligionLab for How To Think Logically, 2/e, or at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
- PowerPoint Presentation Slides for How To Think Logically, 2/e(0205155383): These PowerPoint slides help you convey anthropology principles in a clear and engaging way. For easy access, they are available at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
- Overview of Changes
- Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
- The program of the book has been simplified so that it does much better, and more economically, what instructors need it to do: namely, serve as a text for teaching students how to develop critical reasoning skills. The ‘Philosopher’s Corner’ features of the first edition have been taken out, following the consensus of reviewers, who said that they almost never had time in a 15-week semester to use them if they were teaching the logic too. In this new edition, references to philosophical theories have been minimized and woven into topics of informal logic. In this way, the overall length of the book has been kept about the same as in the first edition, and the price of the book has been kept low.
- Whole sections have been rewritten to make them more precise and user-friendly – helping students examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more! Enhanced topics include inductive arguments, compound propositions, and informal fallacies.
- Many new examples, of varying degrees of difficulty, have been incorporated in the book’s account of informal fallacies. First-edition examples have been brought up to date, while retaining the liberal use of humor throughout.
- Exercise sections in all chapters have been greatly expanded and supplemented by additional exercises, so that students can now get more practice in what they’re learning. As a result, they will now have more assignments to work on in class or as homework. (ex. p. 14)
- New! Create a Custom Text: For enrollments of at least 25, create your own textbook by combining chapters from best-selling Pearson textbooks and/or reading selections in the sequence you want. To begin building your custom text, visit www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. You may also work with a dedicated Pearson Custom editor to create your ideal text—publishing your own original content or mixing and matching Pearson content. Contact your Pearson Publisher’s Representative to get started.
- Has been reworked to present a better introduction to argument, the central topic of the book. The treatment of non-arguments now includes entries for explanations, conditionals, and fictional discourse.
- A more concise treatment of definition now follows discussions of figurative meaning and indirect use of language. Also added to this chapter are an expanded treatment of sentence types, including speech acts, in connection with the discussion of uses of language, providing a more attractive and timely treatment of this topic.
- The discussions of contradiction and consistency have been rewritten for greater clarity.
- The section on evaluative reasoning has been expanded into a much improved discussion of moral, legal, prudential, and aesthetic norms and arguments.
- The authors' clear and direct writing style makes technical concepts in logic easier to understand without compromising rigorous treatment and thorough coverage.
- Abundant pedagogical aids -- including exercises and study questions within each chapter -- enable students to learn logic by applying what they’ve studied. Additionally, sample responses are provided where appropriate, and answers to selected exercises appear at the back of the book. (ex. p. 365)
- Each chapter starts with a chapter outline listing the learning objectives, and then concludes with a chapter summary that reinforces the concepts presented. (ex. p. 3)
- Numerous section summaries appear within each chapter to ensure students key in on crucial points to remember. (ex. p. 27)
- Illustrative examples and special-emphasis boxes throughout the text present new ideas in manageable-sized units of information, so students can digest each concept before moving on to the next one. (ex. p. 35)
- At the end of each chapter is a list of Key Terms, which are defined in the glossary at the end of the book. (ex. p. 23)
- How to Think Logically contains only as much material as you can cover in a course, creating an affordable alternative you can assign with confidence to a cost-conscious student population.
- Each chapter in How to Think Logically is designed as a self-contained unit so that you can choose the combination and order of chapters according to the needs of your courses; making the text a flexible base for courses in logic, critical thinking, and rhetoric.
- Instructor’s Manual with Tests (0205155340): For each chapter in the text, this resource provides a detailed outline, list of objectives, discussion questions, and suggested readings. In addition, test questions in multiple-choice, true/ false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer formats are available for each chapter; the answers are page-referenced to the text. For easy access, this manual is available within the instructor section of MyReligionLab for How To Think Logically, 2/e, or at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
- PowerPoint Presentation Slides for How To Think Logically, 2/e(0205155383): These PowerPoint slides help you convey anthropology principles in a clear and engaging way. For easy access, they are available at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
- Overview of Changes
- Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
- The program of the book has been simplified so that it does much better, and more economically, what instructors need it to do: namely, serve as a text for teaching students how to develop critical reasoning skills. The ‘Philosopher’s Corner’ features of the first edition have been taken out, following the consensus of reviewers, who said that they almost never had time in a 15-week semester to use them if they were teaching the logic too. In this new edition, references to philosophical theories have been minimized and woven into topics of informal logic. In this way, the overall length of the book has been kept about the same as in the first edition, and the price of the book has been kept low.
- Whole sections have been rewritten to make them more precise and user-friendly – helping students examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more! Enhanced topics include inductive arguments, compound propositions, and informal fallacies.
- Many new examples, of varying degrees of difficulty, have been incorporated in the book’s account of informal fallacies. First-edition examples have been brought up to date, while retaining the liberal use of humor throughout.
- Exercise sections in all chapters have been greatly expanded and supplemented by additional exercises, so that students can now get more practice in what they’re learning. As a result, they will now have more assignments to work on in class or as homework. (ex. p. 14)
- New! Create a Custom Text: For enrollments of at least 25, create your own textbook by combining chapters from best-selling Pearson textbooks and/or reading selections in the sequence you want. To begin building your custom text, visit www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. You may also work with a dedicated Pearson Custom editor to create your ideal text—publishing your own original content or mixing and matching Pearson content. Contact your Pearson Publisher’s Representative to get started.
- Has been reworked to present a better introduction to argument, the central topic of the book. The treatment of non-arguments now includes entries for explanations, conditionals, and fictional discourse.
- A more concise treatment of definition now follows discussions of figurative meaning and indirect use of language. Also added to this chapter are an expanded treatment of sentence types, including speech acts, in connection with the discussion of uses of language, providing a more attractive and timely treatment of this topic.
- The discussions of contradiction and consistency have been rewritten for greater clarity.
- The section on evaluative reasoning has been expanded into a much improved discussion of moral, legal, prudential, and aesthetic norms and arguments.
