Description

Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning.

The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues:
- Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes.
-General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments.
-Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony.
-Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations.
-A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables.
-Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty.
-A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities.
-An extended discussion of informal fallacies.
-An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing.