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[email protected] RuBoard Table of Contents Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life By Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder Publisher Pub Date ISBN Pages : Financial Times Prentice Hall : June 13, 2002 : 0-13-064760-8 : 384 Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth, and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life. I
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[email protected] RuBoard Table of Contents Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life By Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder Publisher Pub Date ISBN Pages : Financial Times Prentice Hall : June 13, 2002 : 0-13-064760-8 : 384 Copyright FINANCIAL TIMES Prentice Hall Financial Times Prentice Hall Books Acknowledgment Preface Chapter 1. Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change and Intensifying Danger The Nature of the Post-Industrial World Order A Complex World of Accelerating Change A Threatening World Change, Danger, and Complexity: Interwoven The Challenge of Becoming Critical Thinkers Recommended Reading Chapter 2. Becoming a Critic of Your Thinking How Skilled is Your Thinking (Right Now)? Good Thinking Is as Easy as Bad Thinking (But It Requires Hard Work to Develop It) The Hard Cruel World Become a Critic of Your Own Thinking Conclusion Chapter 3. Becoming a Fair-Minded Thinker Weak versus Strong Critical Thinking What Does Fair-Mindedness Require? Intellectual Humility: Having Knowledge of Ignorance Intellectual Courage: Being Willing to Challenge Beliefs Intellectual Empathy: Entertaining Opposing Views Intellectual Integrity: Holding Ourselves to the Same Standards to Which We Hold Others Intellectual Perseverance: Working Through Complexity and Frustration Confidence in Reason: Recognizing that Good Reasoning Has Proven Its Worth Intellectual Autonomy: Being an Independent Thinker Recognizing the Interdependence of Intellectual Virtues This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot Conclusion Chapter 4. Self-Understanding Monitoring the Egocentrism in Your Thought and Life Making a Commitment to Fair-Mindedness Recognizing the Mind's Three Distinctive Functions Understanding That You Have a Special Relationship to Your Mind Chapter 5. The First Four Stages of Development: What Level Thinker Are You? Stage One: The Unreflective Thinker—Are You an Unreflective Thinker? Stage Two: The Challenged Thinker—Are You Ready to Accept the Challenge? Stage Three: The Beginning Thinker—Are You Willing to Begin? Stage Four: The Practicing Thinker—Good Thinking Can Be Practiced Like Basketball, Tennis, or Ballet A "Game Plan" for Improvement A Game Plan for Devising a Game Plan Chapter 6. The Parts of Thinking Reasoning Is Everywhere in