Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society
by Wanda Teays
Fourth Edition - Purchase includes digital e-Book access
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ISBN: 978-1-71149-411-1
672 pages
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About the Book
Second Thoughts, Fourth Edition by Wanda Teays is a popular, user-friendly textbook in Critical Thinking. Its fifteen chapters address argumentation, analysis, inductive/deductive reasoning, syllogisms, fallacies of reasoning, advertising and news media, use of language, the Internet, and legal reasoning. Exercises, case studies, global examples, thought puzzles, and lively group topics help students develop their writing and thinking skills. This book works well as a classroom text or reference book for both students and faculty.
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About the Author
Wanda Teays has a PhD (Humanities) from Concordia University (Montreal), MA (Phi of Math) from U of Alberta, and MTS from Harvard. She loves teaching and working with her colleagues in Philosophy. She has taught many MSMU Philosophy classes including: Bioethics, Contemporary Moral Problems, Critical Thinking, Logic, Symbolic Logic, Phi of Law, Phi of Film, Ethics & Film, Phi of Lit, Phi of Native Cultures, and Phi of Art. She also loves to write. Books she’s written include Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society; Seeing the Light: Ethics Through Movies; Business Ethics Through Movies; and Doctors and Torture: Medicine at the a Crossroads.She is editor of Analyzing Violence Against Women and co-editor of three books—(1) Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd Ed.; (2) Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care and (3) Violence Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives. Currently she is co-editing a book with Alison Dundes Renteln (at USC) on University Ethics.
