The Critical Thinking Toolkit

Galen A. Foresman
The Critical Thinking Toolkit
The Critical Thinking Toolkit

The Critical Thinking Toolkit
ISBN: 9780470658697
Publication Date: 19 August 2016

The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.

  • Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, and tropes and symbols from rhetoric
  • Follows the proven format of The Philosopher's Toolkit and The Ethics Toolkit with concise, easily digestible entries, "see also" recommendations that connect topics, and recommended reading lists
  • Allows readers to apply new critical thinking and reasoning skills with exercises and real life examples at the end of each chapter
  • Written in an accessible way, it leads readers through terrain too often cluttered with jargon
  • Ideal for beginning to advanced students, as well as general readers, looking for a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to critical thinking

About the Author

Galen Foresman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA. ; His research interests include ethics, philosophy of punishment, philosophy of religion, and philosophy as it applies to pop culture. ; He is the author of several book chapters and the editor of Supernatural and Philosophy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

Peter S. Fosl is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Chair of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Transylvania University, USA. A David Hume Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, his research interests include skepticism and the history of philosop...