a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings Barnet, Sylvan editor. Bedau, Hugo Adam editor. O'Hara, John 1974- editor. text bibliography mau Boston, MA Bedford/St.Martins 2017 2017 Eleventh edition. monographic eng

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xxxiii, 776 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Critical thinking -- Critical reading: getting started -- Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- Visual rhetoric: thinking about images as arguments -- Writing an analysis of an argument -- Developing an argument of your own -- Using sources -- A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model -- A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies -- A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument -- A literary critic's view: arguing about literature -- A debater's view: individual oral presentations and debate -- Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven? -- Technology in the classroom: useful or distracting? -- The local food movement : is it a better way to eat? -- The current state of childhood: is "helicopter parenting" or "free-range childhood" better for kids? -- Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable? -- Mandatory military service: should it be required? -- College education : what is its purpose? -- Race and police violence: how do we solve the problem? -- Junk food : should the government regulate our intake? -- Online versus IRL: how has social networking changed how we relate to one another? -- Immigration: what is to be done? -- The carceral state: why are so many Americans in jail? -- American exceptionalism: how should the United States teach about its past? -- What is the ideal society? -- How free is the will of the individual within society? -- What is happiness? [edited by] Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Reasoning Logic Social ethics Religion Logic Reasoning Religion Social ethics BC 177 .C86 2017 9781319075880 2017385401 YDXCP 170712 20251128104930.0 19781934 eng