Critical thinking for addiction professionals [electronic resource] / Michael J. Taleff.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., c2006.Description: xiii, 160 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.89 22
LOC classification:
  • RC457 .T35 2006eb
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Contents:
The world of critical thinking -- Critical thinking: an overview of key elements -- Poor thinking: from the individual to the field -- Time for a little test -- Critical thinking: the basics -- What drives bad thinking? -- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index.

The world of critical thinking -- Critical thinking: an overview of key elements -- Poor thinking: from the individual to the field -- Time for a little test -- Critical thinking: the basics -- What drives bad thinking? -- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.

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