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href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0536600600/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <img border="0" src="graphics/bact1.jpg" alt="Becoming a Critical Thinker" align="left" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="121" height="158"></a></b></font><b><font SIZE="3">Becoming a Critical Thinker<br> </font> </b> </i><b><font size="3">A Guide for the New Millennium</font></b><font size="3"> <br> Pearson 2000<br></font><b><font SIZE="+0" COLOR="#800080">by Robert Todd Carroll</font><font color="#800080" size="3"><br> ISBN 0 - 536 - 60060 - 0</font></b></p> <p> </p> <p><b><font size="+0" color="#800080"><br> </font><font face="Arial"><font size="+0" color="#008080">The book can be ordered from </font><font size="+0" color="#800080"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0536600600/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <font color="#800080">Amazon.com</font></a></font><font size="+0" color="#008080"> but you can get it free here.</font><br> </font></b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="2" color="#008080" face="Arial"><b>Addenda are posted at </b></font><font face="Arial"><b><font size="+0" color="#008080"><a href="http://classes.skepdic.com/bactaddenda.html">http://classes.skepdic.com/bactaddenda.html</a></font></b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><b> <font size="+0" color="#800080"> <font color="#800080"> Teachers interested in a review copy should contact <a href="http://www.pearsoncustom.com/best/0536859345.html">Pearson Custom Publishing</a></font></a> but as far as I am concerned any teacher can copy and distribute any of this material to students as long as students are not required to pay any costs above copying charges.</font></b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b><a name="free" id="free"></a>Table of contents for the 2nd edition.</b></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b><font COLOR="#00000B">1. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch1.pdf">Critical Thinking</a></font></b><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch1.pdf"> </a> (click to download)<br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">2. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch2.pdf">Language and Critical Thinking</a></font></b><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch2.pdf"> </a>(click to download)<br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">3. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch3.pdf">Sources</a></font></b> (click to download)<br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">4. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch4.pdf">Identifying Arguments</a></font></b> <br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">5.<a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch5.pdf"> Evaluating Arguments</a></font></b> <br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">6. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch6.pdf">Evaluating Extended Arguments</a></font></b> <br><font COLOR="#00000B"><b>7. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch7.pdf">Sampling and Analogical Reasoning</a></b><br><b>8. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch8.pdf">Causal Reasoning</a></b></font> <br><b><font COLOR="#00000B">9. <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/ch9.pdf">Science and Pseudoscience</a></font></b> <br> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/answers.pdf"><strong>Answers to Selected Exercises</strong></a> (note ch. 4 graphs are incomplete)<br> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons/glossary.pdf">Glossary</a></font> <p><font face="Arial" size="3">Also available for free download are booklets I wrote to help students develop their study and writing skills: <i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/studyskills1.pdf">Student Success Guide: Study Skills</a> </i>and<i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/writingskills.pdf"> Student Success Guide: Writing Skills.</a></i></font></p> </div> <p></font></font></p> </div> <div class="right"> <div class="right_it"> <div class="search"> <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="skepdic.com" /> <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" value="" size="20" /> <input 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