Lessons from Critical Thinkers

Methods for Clear Thinking and Analysis in Everyday Situations from the Greatest Thinkers in History

De: Albert Rutherford

Narrado por: Russell Newton

Duración: 2 h y 12 m

Resumen del Editor

Do you want to ask smart questions like Socrates or be an out-of-the-box thinker like John Stuart Mill and rational like Descartes?

These people have at least one thing in common: They were great critical thinkers of their time, and their shared wisdom lived through the centuries.

Lessons from Critical Thinkers provides intellectual power to engage with and participate in effective critical thoughts, arguments, debates, reading, and reflection drawn from methods in the history of philosophical cognitive development.

• Learn to think slowly and deliberately before making a decision
• Get ready to question opinions and even facts
• Learn to gather information before jumping to conclusions
• Accept and expect the biased and flawed nature of human cognition

Lessons from Critical Thinkers gives you a thorough presentation of the ideas and principles of critical thinking practiced by the greatest minds in history. Learn about the most important critical thinking methods to make better decisions in your personal life, career, and friendships.

Equip yourself with the essential methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of ideas and everyday situations.

• Discover critical thinking by familiarizing yourself with concepts from other disciplines, like philosophy, cognitive biases and errors, race and gender from sociology and political science, and symbols from rhetoric
• Apply critical thinking and reasoning skills to your day-to-day problems
• Find the most rewarding options in any opportunity

Lessons from Critical Thinkers is a helpful audiobook for listeners of any age and background who want to improve their critical thinking skills by learning from the greatest thinkers of all time. Learn to filter out irrelevant information efficiently and prioritize your resources to get the best results. Enhance your communication skills, reasoning, and logic.

Improve your critical, logical, observational, and rational thinking skills with the timeless principles presented in this book.

©2018 Albert Rutherford (P)2019 Albert Rutherford

Good refresher

I enjoyed it. it like a refresher course. Worth the listen to me. I will listen to it more than once.

This was fun

I enjoyed the overall themes and the brief synopses of each philosophical figure. the beginning was a little wanting of more information, but the quality and the style of the audio were both top notch.

Very Good

This book did an excellent job to provide the general background information of prominent thinkers. I liked how the philosophical views were compared, contrasted, and built upon one another in their respective societal contexts.

good book on critical thinking

great digest into the greatest critical thinkers and their methods, highly recommend to anyone who want to become an independent thinker

Two thumbs up!

As a philosophy professor who has taught logic for more than 40 years, I was curious to see what a book on critical thinking intended for today's general audience might be like, especially since the term "critical thinking" is used in so many different ways, in so many different contexts, and in so many fields of study, with almost everyone claiming ownership of the term. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised to find a very thorough and detailed presentation of great trends in the art of rational discussion, and not the breezy and vague platitudes often found in popular offerings on this topic.

Starting with the Socratic method, and working through the writings of such luminaries as Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Kant, and Mill, Rutherford does an excellent job highlighting the central themes and methods which have shaped much of the history of western philosophy, presenting them accurately without watering them down. I found the chapters on Descartes and Mill especially interesting. As a young man, Descartes was disappointed with much of his education, and asked if there was anything of which we can be truly certain. This query led to his famous "method of doubt" as a possible route to indubitable truth. How can one not be fascinated by this? Philosophy at its best. Rutherford also offers numerous tidbits about the lives of the thinkers discussed, which makes the material all the more engaging.

At just over 2 hours, it's an easy listen that keeps the "reader" engaged. The narrator has a voice and style which remind me of the style of a corporate presentation. This may not be ideal for a novel, but for this topic it works perfectly. He is clear, concise, authoritative, and well-paced.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in clear and precise thinking, and/or learning about some of the greatest thinkers of all time. Two thumbs up!

I received this audiobook at no cost, in exchange for an unbiased review.

Excellent book

No flowery language just a brief biography of each person and then in depth analysis. Well worth the time

Truly excellent

This is not only a historical overview, nor is it only an anthology of philosophical thought on critical thinking. What I like best about it is its accessibility, and it’s attempt through being accessible to enable those who are not critical thinkers to develop this trait as part of their personal development, to the benefit of themselves and the communities we share. Worth listening to even a few times, if that’s what it takes, and at a couple hours length that’s easy enough to commit to given the reward. Highly recommended as an introduction, and there’s enough information there to whet the appetite for further study.

I received this audiobook at no cost, agreeing to provide my unbiased review.

Great book

This book was mainly used to help me with my paper.
It makes an in depth analysis of some of the most prominent critical thinkers in history.
My favourite part was the correlation between freedom and rationality

Ask The Right Questions To Solve A Problem

This audiobook lays out a great foundation to use critical thinking for asking the right questions to solve a problem. It covers several methods and applies them to practical applications. The narrator is perfect for conveying a vast amount of information and keeping you engaged is what is being said. I enjoyed this audiobook and have used the information contained within in my every day life.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

A Great Survey

I manage a group of technical peoples, and this books has given me a ton of food for thought about problem solving. Also some tips interviewing candidates for critical thinking.

The narrator is a bit bland, but presents the info nicely. There also isn’t much of a story but it is packed full of technical review of great thinkers. It’s fairly dense, will listen to a refresher soon.