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What's The Reason?, Kenton Machina, Mark Siderits

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

"What's the Reason?" is an informal applied logic textbook in 5 chapters. It includes discussions of the nature of good everyday and academic reasoning, common mistakes in everyday reasoning, and overall informal argument assessment.

Critical Thinking By Alec Fisher (Book Review), G. C. Goddu

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The aim of Critical Thinking is to explicitly and directly teach critical thinking skills and to facilitate the use of these skills to subjects and contexts beyond critical thinking (v, 1). Though the book is primarily intended as an introductory textbook for the teaching of critical thinking, Fisher maintains that the "material is presented in such a way that it can be worked through on a self-study basis"(vi).

Logic: The First Term Revisited, Alan S. Pierpoint

Theses Digitization Project

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Basic Applied Logic, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

From the preface:

This is a practical book, intended to help its users develop logical reasoning skills. It is designed for any introductory course that focuses on the development of those skills—whether that course takes an "informal" nonsymbolic approach or a more formal approach. Although it contains optional sections in which modern symbolic logic is carefully developed through first-order predicate calculus, the book maintains a practical orientation, emphasizing only those aspects of logical theory that bear on argument evaluation and argument construction. Thus, the book is well-suited for use in a wide range of introductory applied logic courses, introductory philosophy …

03. First Edition Of Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery (1974) By Matthew Lipman, Matthew Lipman

Middle School Curriculum

Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery is the student book for a project in philosophical thinking. It offers a model of dialogue—both of children with one another and of children with adults. The story is set among a classroom of children who begin to understand the basics of logical reasoning when Harry, who isn't paying attention in class, says that a comet is a planet because he remembers hearing that comets revolve around the sun just as planets do. The events that follow in the classroom and outside of school are a recreation of the ways that children night might find themselves thinking …