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An Introduction to Critical Thinking Paperback – 16 November 2000


This text uses the educational objectives of Benjamin Bloom as six steps to critical thinking (namely: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation). The book starts with the absolute basics (for example, how to find the topic, issue, and thesis) vs. the usual “explaining and evaluating arguments” and fine distinctions that easily can lose students.
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Bruce R. Reichenbach is currently Professor of Philosophy at Augsburg College, where he has taught since 1968. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. He also has been a visiting professor at Morija Theological Seminary in Lesotho, Africa, at Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania, and at Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has authored or co-authored 7 books and over three dozen professional articles. In addition to receiving a grant from the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies to complete a book on the law of karma, he has participated in several NEH Summer Seminars, NEH Institutes, and Fulbright-Hays Foreign Travel Seminars. He developed a critical thinking program for his college, which requires that all incoming freshmen take a critical thinking assessment. His special interests are critical thinking, philosophy of religion, and the ethics of health care and medicine.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Professional (16 November 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0073660272
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073660271
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm

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