Bøger af Douglas Thiel

Courses in Critical Thinking are offered by many Philosophy and English Departments within the United States. Many institutions extol "critical thinking skills" as a core competency. This book is written by a long term philosophy instructor who has evaluated scores of potential textbooks over the last 20 years. For various reasons, this text was written to capture the essential nature of what is often called the informal fallacies and how they play out in oral conversations and writing composition. Additionally, this book covers the basic elements of a "position" paper and how to develop such a paper when writing on controversial political and social issues. The goal is provide a student with the essentials that once understood will have long lasting value.

This book is designed for an Introduction to Philosophy course in higher education. It is divided into six major themes which comprise on-going dialogues in the history of philosophy. Additionally, this book explores the three most prominent moral theories used in modern philosophy to examine a wide range of contemporary political and social issues. It is written in an easy to understand, conversational style. While designed for use in higher education it would be a way for anyone who has been interested in what philosophy has to "say" on a wide range of big questions, a chance to glimpse into this world.