| Edition |
2010 (Seventh printing)
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| Publication |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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| Description |
viii, 472pBlue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Through this book the author encourages critical thinking across a range of subject areas and helps students to ask relevant questions, use language with care and precision, support ideas with evidence, argue coherently and make sound judgements.
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| Contents |
Part 1, Knowers And Knowing
The problem of knowledge
The Nature Of Knowledge
Part 2, Ways Of Knowing
Language
Perception
Reason
Emotion
Part 3, Areas Of Knowledge
Mathematics
The natural sciences
The human sciences
History
The arts
Ethics
Religion
Part 4. Conclusion
Truth and wisdom
Index
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| Standard Number |
9780521542982 Pb.
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