Book Title: A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues
Subtitle: Second edition, revised and updated
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Book Description: A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues. From there it develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fits the premises, whether the argument fits the conversation, and whether it is possible to tell.
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A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues Copyright © 2020 by David Carl Wilson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
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A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues Copyright © 2020 by David Carl Wilson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues was originally published in print in 1999. The author, David Carl Wilson, regained the copyright for this content which has been revised and updated in this new edition. The cover image, “Fruit Tree Orchards, Huelva Spain,” is by Overview, source imagery © Maxar 2020. Used with permission.