BeyondFeelings

BEYOND FEELINGS A GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING by VINCENT RYAN RUGGIERO Table of Contents INTRODUCTION The Context 01 Who are YOU 02 What is CRITICAL THINKING 03 What is TRUTH 04 What does it mean to KNOW 05 How GOOD are your OPINIONs The Problems 06 The Basic Problem- MINE IS BETTER 07 RESISTANCE to change 08 CONFORMITY 09 FACE-SAVING 10 STEREOTYPING 11 OVERSIMPLIFICATION 12 HASTY CONCLUSIONS 13 UNWARRANTED ASSUMPTIONS 14 LOGICAL FALLACIES 15 The problems in COMBINATION A Strategy 16 Knowing Yourself 17 Being Observant 18 Clarifying Issues 19 Conducting Inquiry 20 Interpreting Evidence 21 Analyzing Viewpoints 22 Forming Judgments The Issues Some Contemporary Issues INTRODUCTION B eyond Feelings is designed to introduce you to the subject of critical thinking. The subject is undoubtedly new to you because it is not taught in most elementary and secondary schools. In fact, until fairly recently it was not taught in most colleges. During the 1960s and much of the 1970s the emphasis was more on subjectivity than on objectivity, more on feeling than on thought. Over the past ten years, however, a number of studies of America's schools have......