In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts. Critical Thinking includes topics such as: argument analysis, clarifying terms and interpreting ideas, skilful decision making and value judgements, and applying critical thinking to different subjects. Critical Thinking includes exercises that enable students to practise their critical thinking skills, as well as an appendix of examples and exercises for teachers to use and adapt.
A good introduction to Critical Thinking, but it doesn't touch all of the aspects of Critical Thinking. Some topics that the book doesn't talk about include: Cognitive Biases, Logical Fallacies and Basics of Logic; personally I think these topics are really important even in an introductory text.
However, the book has plenty of exercises, almost 200 if not more! And it does a good job of bridging critical thinking to decision making in the last chapter.
مدخل بسيط الي حد ما للتفكير النقدي ما يميز الكتاب هو دعمه بأمثلة من أرض الواقع وليس أمثلة إفتراضية كالمعهود في كتب المنطق،وتجنب الخوض في زوايا نظرية لا تختص الحياة العامة الكتاب مزود بملحقين: الأول للأسئلة للتدريب. والآخر للإجابات بالأصالة الأمثلة المتأثرة في ثنايا الكتاب في النهاية الكتاب يستحق القراءة وان كنت أري أنه لا يصلح للمبتدأ كبداية خصوصا إذا كانت أول تجربة مع هذا المجال كتب المغالطات أفضل كمدخل
Perhaps a few too many exercises, which kept breaking my concentration and the flow of the text. Of course, the book is written for people taking exams in Critical Thinking (like me!), and so exercises are useful - but as I say, too many, or, perhaps, ill-placed. Still, I learned some things, and I shall be skimming it again closer to the exam.
Had to read this as summer reading for a course. As I've already been explicitly taught critical thinking skills, this book was simply a long winded reiteration of what I already know. Struggled so much to get through it that I simply stopped part way through.
This book is geared more towards the student, with lots of exercises and answer keys. I read it for pleasure/education and found it informative with regard to reasoning, argument evaluation, and the decision making process.