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This accessible and engaging book reveals the essential elements of critical and creative thinking that drive achievement in academic, professional, and personal spheres. Moving seamlessly from the foundations of critical understanding to the art of persuasion, leading scholar Robert DiYanni expertly guides readers past common obstacles toward a more complete intellectual toolkit.
This compelling guide is an indispensable companion to Reading Literature and Writing that Matters. Part I offers a clear and concise overview of essential aspects of critical thinking and understanding, including what knowledge is, how we acquire it, and how we can use it productively. Part II explores argument and persuasion, including essential elements of argumentation and how to construct effective arguments. Part III introduces types of logical fallacies, along with cognitive biases and various blocks to thinking—and how to overcome them. Part IV describes practical thinking tools and techniques to develop readers' creative thinking skills. It also features a host of exercises and questions throughout.
The result is a more confident, capable thinker equipped to meet challenges with clarity and innovation. Whether you're navigating complex decisions, solving persistent problems, or analyzing texts, this book is the essential guide to honing your critical thinking skills.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Critical Thinking and Understanding
1. Why We Need Critical Thinking
2. How We Acquire Knowledge
3. Decisive Thinking: Making Good Decisions
Part II: Argument and Persuasion
4. Argument Basics: Claims and Evidence / Assumptions and Implications
5. Key Aspects of Argument: Causality and Correlation / Authority and Analogy
6. Rhetoric: Its Dangers and Its Uses
Part III: Obstacles to Productive Thinking
7. Inductive Thinking Fallacies
8. Cognitive Biases and Thinking Blocks
Part IV: Pathways to Creative Thinking
9. Some Lateral Thinking Tools
10. Creative Thinking Strategies and Techniques
Part V: Thinking with Some Master Thinkers
11. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
12. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
13. Susanne K. Langer and Jerome S. Bruner
14. Richard Feynman and Daniel Kahneman
Appendix A: Varieties of Future Thinking
Appendix B: Thinking About Artificial Intelligence
References
Index



