
The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking
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As part of the Thinker's Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
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Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and, through his work and legacy, remains a distinguished thinker in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essential to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking. Paul authored or coauthored more than two hundred articles and seven books on the critical thinking. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.
Content
- The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking
- Contents
- Part I: Understanding the Basic Theory of Analysis
- Why a Guide on Analytic Thinking?
- Why the Analysis of Thinking is Important
- All Thinking is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up
- All Humans Use Their Thinking To Make Sense of the World
- To Analyze Thinking We Must Learn to Identify and Question Its Elemental Structures
- To Evaluate Thinking, We Must Understand and Apply Intellectual Standards
- Thirty-five Dimensions of Critical Thought
- On the Basis of the Above We Can Develop A Checklist for Evaluating Reasoning
- Part 2: Getting Started: Some First Steps
- Think About Purpose
- State the Question
- Gather Information
- Watch Your Inferences
- Check Your Assumptions
- Clarify Your Concepts
- Understand Your Point of View
- Think Through the Implications
- Part 3: Using Analysis to Figure Out the Logic of Anything
- The Figuring Mind
- Analyzing the Logic of Human Emotions
- Analyzing Problems
- Analyzing the Logic of an Article, Essay, or Chapter
- Analyzing the Logic of a Textbook
- Evaluating an Author's Reasoning
- Analyzing the Logic of a Subject:
- Science
- History
- Sociology
- Economics
- Ecology
- Substantive Writing
- Part 4: Taking Your Understanding to a Deeper Level
- Analyzing and Assessing:
- Goals, Purposes, or Objectives
- Questions, Problems, and Issues
- Data, Evidence, Experience, Research
- Inferences, Interpretations, and Conclusions
- Assumptions and Beliefs
- Concepts, Ideas, and Theories
- Points of View and Perspectives
- Implications and Consequences
- Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions
- Conclusion
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