The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools 8th Edition

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About the Authors......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Why Critical Thinking?......Page 10 Stages of Critical Thinking Development......Page 11 A Substantive Approach to Critical Thinking......Page 12 Critical Thinkers Routinely Apply Intellectual Standards to the Elements of Reasoning......Page 13 Three Types of Character......Page 14 The Elements of Thought......Page 15 Questions Using the Elements of Thought......Page 16 A Checklist for Reasoning......Page 17 The Figuring Mind......Page 19 Universal Intellectual Standards......Page 20 Some Essential Intellectual Standards for All Human Thought......Page 22 Where Do Intellectual Standards Come From?......Page 23 Intellectual Virtues of the Fairminded Critical Thinker......Page 24 Essential Intellectual Traits......Page 25 How Intellectual Virtues Are Interrelated......Page 28 The Spirit of Critical Thinking......Page 29 Template for Analyzing the Logic of an Article......Page 30 Criteria for Evaluating Reasoning......Page 31 A Template for Problem-Solving......Page 32 Analyzing and Assessing Research......Page 33 Three Kinds of Questions......Page 35 Three Levels of Thought......Page 37 The Human Mind Is Frequently Irrational While Having the Capacity for Rational Thought......Page 38 Humans Often Distort Reality Through Irrational Lenses......Page 39 The Problem of Egocentric Thinking......Page 40 Feelings That Accompany Egocentrism......Page 41 The Problem of Sociocentric Thinking......Page 42 Primary Forms of Sociocentric Thought......Page 43 Unethical Pursuit of Group Agendas......Page 45 Envisioning Critical Societies......Page 46 20 Barriers to Critical Societies......Page 47