Analytical Thinking: Oxford Centre for the Mind

by Gary Lorrison

The Quick Course series of books from the Oxford Centre for the Mind are designed to raise your levels of mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of what it means to use your mind effectively. Each course covers the essentials of its subject, providing practical advice and a number of exercises. The Quick Course series builds up into a complete mind and brain development course that will help you to achieve your full potential. We all like to think of ourselves as rational beings, yet no matter how intelligent we are, we can all be prone to making mistakes. Our Analytical Thinking Quick Course aims to remedy that by helping you to improve your analytical thinking skills. You will be able to make better decisions, assess situations more accurately and be in a better position to persuade other people to adopt your point of view. Our course examines the logical structure of good and bad reasoning, looks at the kinds of evidence on which decisions are commonly based and outlines a number of common fallacies as well as some of the rhetorical and psychological factors that can influence your thinking. Our course also includes a number of logical thinking problems that you can use to hone your logical thinking skills.

94 pages, Paperback

Published May 29, 2014