A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking

David R. Morrow · Anthony Weston

Nov 2011 · Hackett Publishing

About this ebook

A Workbook for Arguments builds on Anthony Weston's Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. The Workbook contains the entire text of the fourth edition of the Rulebook, while supplementing this core text with extensive further explanations and exercises: Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of actual arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, YouTube videos, and other sources; Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules to the examples in the homework exercises; Suggestions for further practice, outlining activities that students can do by themselves or with classmates to improve their critical thinking skills, or pointing them to online resources to do the same; Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments designed to engage students in critical thinking; An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vital skill in evaluating or constructing complex and multi-step arguments; Model answers to odd-numbered problems, including commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of selected sample answers and further discussion of some of the substantive intellectual, philosophical, philosophical, or ethical issues they raise.

Ratings and reviews

I have retracted my previous negative review. After an email to the publishing house of the problems with page numbering and the contents are now fixed. I'll come back and give it 5 stars if I can figure out how to get it in PDF so I can use a text-to-speech reader to read and listen at the same time. This book should be required reading in every high-school. The things you will learn in this book will allow you to see right through the smoke & mirrors to get to the truth and validity behind an argument, as well as teach you how to formulate rock solid arguments.

Helpful information for teaching my kid's to write about a topic and find the strong ereas and how to have discussion about it ...

About the author

David R. Morrow is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Anthony Weston is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Elon University.