Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life 2ed
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Personal and Professional Life is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life. Drs. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.
The volume is inspired by Gilles Deleuze's philosophical project, which builds on the critique of European Humanism and opens up inspiring new perspectives for the renewal of the field.
This popular pocket-size guide empowers readers with critical thinking tools based on the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder. The new edition of this bestselling volume in the Thinkers Guide Library provides students, educators, and professionals with an authoritative problem-solving framework essential for every aspect of life.
Do you know when you're being deceived? Can you trust the information coming from Washington, the media, and the Internet? This classic work on critical thinking uses a novel approach to teach the basics of informal logic. On the assumption that "it takes one to know one," the authors have written the book from the point of view of someone who ......
This book elucidates T. F. Torrance's reconstruction of natural theology as it appears within its intellectual context and broader Christological method. Irving argues that Torrance's work on natural theology is an important affirmation of the priority of grace in theological method and knowledge alongside the integrity of human agency.
Plato's Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Plato's corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.
Integrates the perspectives of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis to distinguish communication theory from the philosophy of communication.
Brown offers close textual analysis of Hegel's theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency). It situates Hegel within historical and contemporary debates about metaphysics, bringing him into dialogue with Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Heidegger, and Agamben. It is of benefit to anyone interested in the history of possibility.
This book reconsiders the Aristotelian analogy. Focusing primarily on Aristotle's Physics Alpha, a structure of analogy emerges within Aristotle's discussion of the principles of "becoming." Eric Schumacher argues that logos, the first of these principles, is rooted in analogy and entails a type of mobility fit to reflect the be-coming of nature.
