Thinking Socratically - Sharon Schwarze

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Auteur(s) : Sharon Schwarze - Harvey Lape

Editeur : Pearson Education (Us)

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2011

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 336

Expédition : 435

Dimensions : 23.0 x 15.5 x 2.0

ISBN : 0205098010

Résumé :

Critical Thinking Skills in Everyday Context — The Socrates Model

Thinking Socratically is a treatment of critical thinking, rather than an informal logic textbook. It emphasizes a philosophical reflection on real issues from everyday life, in order to teach students the skills of critical thinking in a commonplace context that is easy to understand and certain to be remembered.

Teaching and Learning Experience

Improve Critical Thinking - Thinking Socratically contextualizes the presentation of critical thinking topics through easy-to-understand information, and shows, rather than just tells, students how to be critical thinkers by encouraging them to follow Socrates as a model.

Engage Students — Thinking Socratically exposes students to a variety of readings listed after expository material, Venn diagrams, chapter-end summaries, etc. — in order to outline important concepts and learning tools needed for useful reasoning.

Support Instructors - Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor's Manual, or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Plus, Thinking Socratically is organized around topics for ease of assignments, and uses standard terminology to eliminate student confusion.

Sommaire:
IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE BRIEF I. CONNECTIONS. 1. Why Be Rational? 2. Language. 3. Knowledge and Certainty. 4. Arguments and Explanations. II. DEDUCTIVE REASONING. 5. Deductive Links. 6. Deductive Standards. III. INDUCTIVE REASONING. 7. Supporting Our Claims. 8. Standards of Inductive Reasoning. 9. Fallacies. 10. Scientific Reasoning. 11. Pseudoscience. IV. REASONING ABOUT VALUES. 12. The Nature of Morality. 13. Reasoning About Good and Bad. 14. Moral Dialogue. 15. Reason and Commitment. Index 2. COMPREHENSIVE I. CONNECTIONS. 1. Why Be Rational? READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Why the Geese Shrieked. Alan Riding, The Shaman and the Dying Scientist: A Brazilian Tale. 2. Language. READINGS: Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye. Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies. Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans. 3. Knowledge and Certainty. READINGS: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time. Michael Dobbs, Double Identity. 4. Arguments and Explanations. READINGS: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: Michele Scalza, The Decameron: Melchizedek. Linda Herskowitz, The Day-Care Deaths: A Mystery. II. DEDUCTIVE REASONING. 5. Deductive Links. READINGS: Thurgood Marshall, Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia. 6. Deductive Standards. READINGS: Norman Malcolm, Anselm's Ontological Argument. III. INDUCTIVE REASONING. 7. 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. David W. Belin, The Warren Commission: Why We Still Don't Believe It. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Conclusion to The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier. 8. Standards of Inductive Reasoning. READINGS: Cynthia Clendenon, Doctors as Detectives. The Literary Digest Predicts Victory by Landon, 1936. Mark K. Anderson, Thy Countenance Shakes Spears. Denise Grady, So Smoking Causes Cancer: This Is News? Hilary Putnam, Renewing Philosophy. 9. Fallacies. Russell Baker, Lost Genius. Max Shulman, Love Is a Fallacy. The Sleaze Merchants Attack, (an editorial). 10. Scientific Reasoning. READINGS: Morris Kline, The Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus and Kepler. 11. Pseudoscience. READINGS: Martin Gardner, Fliess, Freud, and Biorhythm. IV. REASONING ABOUT VALUES. 12. The Nature of Morality. READINGS: Feodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. 13. Reasoning About Good and Bad. READINGS: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism. 14. Moral Dialogue. READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro (excerpt). 15. Reason and Commitment. READINGS: Jane Smiley, Keynote Speech May 18 at Simpson College's 1996 Commencement. Index.