Thinking Critically

1. THINKING. Living an "Examined" Life. A Roadmap to Your Mind. Working Toward Goals. Images, Decision-Making, and Thinking About Visual Information. An Organized Approach to Making Decisions. Discovering "Who" You Are. Living Creatively. Final Thoughts. 2. THINKING CRITICALLY. Thinking Actively. Carefully Exploring Situations with Questions. Thinking Independently. Viewing Situations from Different Perspectives. Supporting Diverse Perspectives with Reasons and Evidence. Discussing Ideas in an Organized Way. Becoming a Critical Thinker. Analyzing Issues. 3. SOLVING PROBLEMS. Thinking Critically About Problems. Introduction to Solving Problems. Solving Complex Problems. Solving Nonpersonal Problems. 4. PERCEIVING AND BELIEVING. Actively Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting Sensations. Perceiving and Believing. Believing and Perceiving. Types of Beliefs: Report, Inferences, Judgments. Reporting Factual Information. Inferring. Judging. 5. CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE. Believing and Knowing. Knowledge and Truth. Thinking Critically About Your Beliefs. Using Perspective-Taking to Achieve Knowledge. Beliefs Based on Indirect Experience. Evaluating Online Information. Final Thoughts. 6. LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT. The Evolution of Language. The Symbolic Nature of Language. Using Language Effectively. Using Language to Clarify Thinking. Using Language in Social Contexts. Using Language to Influence. Final Thoughts. 7. FORMING APPLYING CONCEPTS. What Are Concepts? The Structure of Concepts. Forming Concepts. Applying Concepts. Defining Concepts. Relating Concept with Mind Maps. Final Thoughts. 8. RELATING AND ORGANIZING. Chronological and Process Relationships. Comparative and Analogical Relationships. Causal Relationships. Final Thoughts. 9. THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT MORAL ISSUES. What Is Ethics? Your Moral Compass. The Thinker's Guide to Moral Decision-Making. 10. CONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS. Recognizing Arguments. Evaluating Arguments. Understanding Deductive Arguments. Constructing Extended Arguments. Final Thoughts. 11. REASONING CRITICALLY. Inductive Reasoning. Empirical Generalization. Fallacies of False Generalization. Causal Reasoning. Causal Fallacies. Fallacies of Relevance. The Critical Thinker's Guide to Reasoning. 12. THINKING CRITICALLY, LIVING CREATIVELY. Living a Life Philosophy. Deciding on a Career. Thinking Critically About Personal Relationships. The Thinker's Guide to Healthy Relationships. Choosing the "Good Life". Glossary. Index.