Dedication Preface Acknowledgments Unit 1. What Is Critical Thinking? Chapter 1. Socrates Part 1: Life and Method Appendix. An Excerpt from The Clouds Chapter 2. Socrates Part 2: Life and Death Chapter 3. On Socrates's Two Favorite Questions Interlude: Socrates at Work Part 1. The Euthyphro Part 2. The Apology Unit 2.

Obstacles to Critical Thinking Chapter 4. Cognitive Biases Appendix. Critical Thinking in Dickens's A Christmas Carol Chapter 5. Relativism and Skepticism Unit 3. Build a Solid Knowledge Base Chapter 6. Reason and the Senses Chapter 7. Personal Experience, Testimony, and Expert Authority Chapter 8. Watch Out for Logical Fallacies Interlude: Critical Thinking and Freedom Chapter 9.

The Internet, News Media, and Advertising Interlude: The Myth of the Cave Unit 4. Criteria for Correct Reasoning Chapter 10. Deduction and Induction: A Closer Look Chapter 11. Explorations in Inductive Reasoning: The Logic of Science Appendix. Elementary Probability Theory Interlude: Critical Thinking and the Birth of Modern Science Chapter 12. Explorations in Deductive Reasoning: Categorical Logic Appendix 1. Testing Syllogisms Using Rules Appendix 2. How an Idea in Logic Led to the Digital Computer and Transformed the World Unit 5.

Moral Reasoning, Worldviews, and the Examined Life Chapter 13. Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning Chapter 14. Critical Thinking, Worldviews, and the Examined Life Epilogue Answers to Selected Exercises Glossary Index.