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The Power of Critical Thinking

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Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims

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The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Sixth Edition, provides the broadest range of tools to show students how critical thinking applies in their lives and the world around them. It explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay writing while also incorporating important topics that most other texts leave out, such as "inference to the best explanation," scientific reasoning, evidence and authority, visual reasoning, and obstacles to critical thinking.

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The Power of Critical Thinking 6CE 6th Edition

• Author(s) Chris MacDonald; Lewis Vaughn
• Publisher Oxford University Press Canada

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• Edition 6th
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Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several books, including: Philosophy Here and Now (2013); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Second Edition (2013); Great Philosophical Arguments (2012); Classics of Philosophy (2011); Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Eighth Edition (2012); How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, Sixth Edition (2011); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, Third Edition (2013); Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, Fourth Edition (2010); The Moral Life, Fourth Edition (2011); and Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (OUP, 2005).

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Chris MacDonald is a philosopher who teaches ethics and critical thinking at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of the popular Business Ethics Blog, and co-author of the online Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.

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