Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict

by Bruce N. Waller

Integrating Logic Skills into the Critical Decision-Making Process

Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to detect fallacies and how to examine and construct cogent arguments.

Accessible and reader friendly–yet thorough and rigorous–Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to integrate all logic skills into the critical decision-making process, and construct arguments from examples gained through the study of contemporary and historic debates, both legal and popular.

Teaching and Learning Experience

Improve Critical Thinking - “Argue Your Case” segments, “Consider the Verdict” boxes, real-life examples and cases, and an optional chapter on “Thinking Critically about Statistics” all encourage students to examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more!

Engage Students - Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict’s readable, conversational style, wealth of exercises, suggested Website resources, glossary (and more!) allows your students to easily read, understand and engage with the text.

Support Instructors - Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Plus, instructors find it easy to teach from Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict because students are given an argument context that orients them to new material and helps them place it in a familiar setting — giving you the freedom to present different, complimentary material in class!

Genres: Philosophy, Logic, Law, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[محمّد التميمي · Rating 4 out of 5]

مفيد. يمتاز بأنه مليء بالأمثلة والقضايا والتمارين للتدرب على القواعد المذكورة في الكتاب.
يعيبه عيب كبير وهو أن أكثر التمارين غير محلولة والتمارين تأخذ تقريبا ثلث الكتاب ويوجد ملحق حل لبعض التمارين لكنه لا يكفي لذلك مررت على معظم التمارين مرورًا سريعًا.
قد يعاب عليه أن أكثر القضايا هي من المحاكم مما قد يسبب شيئًا من الملل.

[Dominic]

Systematic and trustful , but too much concentrated on the aspect of jury .

[Billie Pritchett]

Bruce N. Waller's Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict is the best book of critical thinking on the market. The book demonstrates how good critical thinking comes about through arguments in the technical sense, where a set of premises is used to establish a conclusion. Deductive and inductive arguments are distinguished and common logical fallacies exposed, and also some important issues related to critical thinking are explored, including scientific reasoning and the value of testimony as a source of evidence.

Featured here on Goodreads is the fifth edition. I have the sixth edition, which expands upon some chapters and material, and I believe there is now a seventh edition. My first exposure to this book was about 20 years ago with the fifth edition, which was more than satisfying.

[Ismail Aljedadi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book you can read about logical fallacies

[Blessed Oy]

Insightful book, incites one to think critically about things such as language used by politicians and marketers that would ordinarily seem innocent.

[Priyank Goyal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book.Eye opener !!!