1st Edition
Thinking through Words Practical Approaches to Critical and Creative Thinking
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Critical Thinking and Understanding
1. Why We Need Critical Thinking
2. How We Acquire Knowledge
3. Decisive Thinking: Making Good Decisions
Part II: Argument and Persuasion
4. Argument Basics: Claims and Evidence / Assumptions and Implications
5. Key Aspects of Argument: Causality and Correlation / Authority and Analogy
6. Rhetoric: Its Dangers and Its Uses
Part III: Obstacles to Productive Thinking
7. Inductive Thinking Fallacies
8. Cognitive Biases and Thinking Blocks
Part IV: Pathways to Creative Thinking
9. Some Lateral Thinking Tools
10. Creative Thinking Strategies and Techniques
Part V: Thinking with Some Master Thinkers
11. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
12. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
13. Susanne K. Langer and Jerome S. Bruner
14. Richard Feynman and Daniel Kahneman
Appendix A: Varieties of Future Thinking
Appendix B: Thinking About Artificial Intelligence
References
Index
Biography
Robert DiYanni is Professor of Humanities at New York University, USA, where he serves on the faculties of the School of Professional Studies and the Stern School of Business, following a decade in the College of Arts and Science. His publications include The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking (2014), Critical and Creative Thinking: A Brief Guide for Teachers (2015), and Critical Reading Across the Curriculum (with Anton Borst; 2017).
