Synopsis • Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues, Second Edition encourages students in a user-friendly way to improve their own natural reasoning skills. An enjoyable collection of readings presents students with real-life situations that raise questions about the basic assumptions of rationality, naturally engaging them in open dialogue-the hallmark of the rational person. The situations range from the problem of evidence at a trial to the absence of an explanation of why two children died in the same day-care center on the same day.

Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues (2nd Edition) on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This unique book is an exploration of critical thinking, rather than a text of informal logic. It emphasizes a philosophical reflection on real issues from everyday life.

The text is distinctively different, both conceptually and pedagogically in its approach and critical thinking. Table Of Content • I. Why Be Rational? READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Why the Geese Shrieked. Alan Riding, The Shaman and the Dying Scientist: A Brazilian Tale. READINGS: Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye. Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies. Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans.

Knowledge and Certainty. READINGS: Reneacute; Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time. Michael Dobbs, Double Identity. Arguments and Explanations. READINGS: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: Michele Scalza, The Decameron: Melchizedek. Linda Herskowitz, The Day-Care Deaths: A Mystery.

DEDUCTIVE REASONING. Deductive Links. READINGS: Thurgood Marshall, Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v.

Deductive Standards. READINGS: Norman Malcolm, Anselm's Ontological Argument. INDUCTIVE REASONING. Supporting Our Claims. READINGS: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier. Mike Mallowe, Murder on the Main Line.

Emilie Lounsberry and Henry Goldman, The Jury: Convinced or Confused? Emilie Lounsberry, Bradfield, on Stand, Denies Any Role.

Henry Goldman, Bradfield and Women. Belin, The Warren Commission: Why We Still Don't Believe It. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Conclusion to 'The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier'. Standards of Inductive Reasoning. READINGS: Cynthia Clendenon, Doctors as Detectives. The Literary Digest Predicts Victory by Landon, 1936.

Anderson, Thy Countenance Shakes Spears. Denise Grady, So Smoking Causes Cancer: This Is News? Hilary Putnam, Renewing Philosophy. Russell Baker, Lost Genius. Max Shulman, Love Is a Fallacy.

The Sleaze Merchants Attack, (an editorial). Scientific Reasoning. READINGS: Morris Kline, The Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus and Kepler. READINGS: Martin Gardner, Fliess, Freud, and Biorhythm.

Pizza Vs Skeletons Apk Full Download. REASONING ABOUT VALUES. The Nature of Morality. READINGS: Feodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Reasoning About Good and Bad. READINGS: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism. Moral Dialogue. READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro (excerpt). Reason and Commitment.

READINGS: Jane Smiley, Keynote Speech May 18 at Simpson College's 1996 Com. Serial Ecg Frequency.