Critical Thinking 5th edition

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This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach. Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day. More than 1,000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives. Essay writing lessons and visual writing lessons, using the cast of characters, teach students that first comes clear thinking and then comes clear writing. A complete and comprehensive Instructor's Manual makes the text easy to teach and grade. New to this edition: chapters on explanations and reasoning in the sciences.
 Over 1,000 examples and exercises from daily life.
 A dozen original writing lessons fully integrated with the text.
 Unique cartoon writing lessons help students apply critical thinking to non-verbal situations.

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Richard L Epstein received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a post-doctoral fellow in mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. a Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He is the author of the series of books "Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well", and is now the Head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.

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