The Critical Thinking Toolkit

The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a smart, well-written guide to critical thinking that will have students (and instructors) wondering how they got by without it for so long. Not only is this volume a key resource for those new to the study of critical thinking, but I suspect that copies will also find their way into the grateful hands of students in any academic discipline that requires the ability to think clearly and discerningly. Troy Jollimore, California State University, Chico The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential tools and methods for clear, analytical, and logical thinking in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Following the format of The Philosopher's Toolkit and The Ethics Toolkit, this volume contains concise, easily digestible entries, incisive insights that deftly connect sub-topics, and carefully-curated recommendations for further reading. This interdisciplinary guide takes a holistic approach to critical thinking by collecting related concepts from disparate fields in one indispensable volume. In addition to basic logic, the authors cover topics such as evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, tropes and symbols from rhetoric, and much more. Directed exercises and real-world examples at the end of each chapter enable readers to directly engage with these concepts, methods, and skills in application. Ideal for general readers and students alike, this sophisticated yet accessible introduction to critical thinking gives readers the knowledge they need to become discerning, engaged, and empowered thinkers in the world today.