This book proves a number of self assessment activities, including several sub-skills, such as identifying similarities and differences. Includes unique interviews with students from a range of universities, offering reassurance and guidance on how to tackle reading lists, voice ideas or questions in groups, and listen actively, from those who have first-hand experience. I love philosophy, and Albert Rutherford has become one of my new favorite authors on critical thinking.

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Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory is a Lecturer in Climate Change and Business Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS). It contains 58 illustrations offering summaries for known strategies such as the Rubber Band Model, the Personal Performance Model, and the Black Swan Model. I included it because it suggests you can you improve your critical thinking by having labels for things, recognising the moves, but also by having examples which are memorable, through which you can learn.

It’s written clearly and concisely laying out for you the basic building blocks of logic and critical thinking. It enables you to understand the truth laying behind the valid evidences that someone is trying to hide it from you.

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I also like how the book discusses the reasons why people need to believe – or at least think they do. I included logic, some cognitive biases, some rhetorical moves, and also (for instance) the topic of pseudo-profundity, whereby people make seemingly deep statements that are in fact shallow. They’re more like to say on average that the sentence should be eight months than they would have been otherwise.Equip yourself with the essential methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of ideas and everyday situations. One of the big problems for an ordinary reader looking at this kind of book is that we are not equipped to judge the reliability of his sources, and so the reliability of the conclusions that he draws. The Art of Thinking Clearly is a very short and punchy book, while Tom’s is longer, and more of a textbook. If you ask people if Gandhi was older than 114 years old when he died, people give a higher answer than if you just asked them: ‘How old was Gandhi when he died?