Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues, 2nd Edition PDF Manual Solutions

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Table of Contents

I. CONNECTIONS.

1. Why Be Rational?

READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Why the Geese Shrieked. Alan Riding, The Shaman and the Dying Scientist: A Brazilian Tale.

2. Language.

READINGS: Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye. Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies. Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans.

3. Knowledge and Certainty.

READINGS: René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time. Michael Dobbs, Double Identity.

4. Arguments and Explanations.

READINGS: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: Michele Scalza, The Decameron: Melchizedek. Linda Herskowitz, The Day-Care Deaths: A Mystery.

II. DEDUCTIVE REASONING.

5. Deductive Links.

READINGS: Thurgood Marshall, Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia.

6. Deductive Standards.

READINGS: Norman Malcolm, Anselm's Ontological Argument.

III. INDUCTIVE REASONING.

7. Supporting Our Claims.

READINGS: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier. Mike Mallowe, Murder on the Main Line. Emilie Lounsberry and Henry Goldman, The Jury: Convinced or Confused? Emilie Lounsberry, Bradfield, on Stand, Denies Any Role. Henry Goldman, Bradfield and Women. David W. Belin, The Warren Commission: Why We Still Don't Believe It. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Conclusion to “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”.

8. Standards of Inductive Reasoning.

READINGS: Cynthia Clendenon, Doctors as Detectives. The Literary Digest Predicts Victory by Landon, 1936. Mark K. Anderson, Thy Countenance Shakes Spears. Denise Grady, So Smoking Causes Cancer: This Is News? Hilary Putnam, Renewing Philosophy.

9. Fallacies.

Russell Baker, Lost Genius. Max Shulman, Love Is a Fallacy. The Sleaze Merchants Attack, (an editorial).

10. Scientific Reasoning.

READINGS: Morris Kline, The Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus and Kepler.

11. Pseudoscience.

READINGS: Martin Gardner, Fliess, Freud, and Biorhythm.

IV. REASONING ABOUT VALUES.

12. The Nature of Morality.

READINGS: Feodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

13. Reasoning About Good and Bad.

READINGS: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism.

14. Moral Dialogue.

READINGS: Plato, Euthyphro (excerpt).

15. Reason and Commitment.

READINGS: Jane Smiley, Keynote Speech May 18 at Simpson College's 1996 Commencement.

Index.

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