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

By: Taleff, Michael J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., c2006Description: xiii, 160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Clinical psychology -- Decision making | Counseling -- Decision making | Decision makingGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.89 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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?.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.