Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

By: Martin Cohen

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking

Just what are the ingredients of a great argument? What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively? And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam? If you’ve ever asked any of these questions, then this book is for you!

These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic. Inside, you'll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues.

With this accessible and friendly guide, you'll get plain-English instruction on how to identify other people's assumptions, methodology, and conclusions, evaluate evidence, and interpret texts effectively. You'll also find tips and guidance on reading between the lines, assessing validity—and even advice on when not to apply logic too rigidly!

Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies:

Provides tools and strategies from a range of disciplines great for developing your reflective thinking skills
Offers expert guidance on sound reasoning and textual analysis
Shows precisely how to use concept mapping and brainstorming to generate insights
Demonstrates how critical thinking skills is a proven path to success as a student
Whether you're undertaking reviews, planning research projects or just keen to give your brain a workout, Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies equips you with everything you need to succeed.©2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex

Not disappointed. Worth reading! Very helpful.

I only listened to the audiobook and it was very helpful in terms of learning (and practicing/applying) critical thinking and what questions to ask oneself to develop this skill. It is more aimed at how to read between the lines and make constructive, critical judgments, and arguing/debating. This is not a problem-solving book. I am interested in buying the physical book to see all the uncovered details.

boring

information is basic but good introduction to philosophy. fails at entertainment but informative. give it a try

I lost track at some point

Starts well then seems to move into psychology, creative writing, philosophy… it became a little difficult to keep up with the flow. Some interesting concepts though which help with logical reasoning and deduction

Needs more support material as an audiobook

Felt like here was so much I was missing beyond the PDF provided. The information and techniques offered were good, though.

Two things…

1) “1/3 of the test subjects complied”, which means 2/3 didn’t.
2) the problem of evil isn’t a win for the skeptics. It ignores the concept of original sin. Also, Christians assume they know what God does and doesn’t want, skeptics allow the assumption because it would destroy their criticisms of religion. What if God exists, but no human being on Earth could ever know what that is, or how to go about pleasing whatever deity allegedly created us?