This is a seminar to engage PhD students in advanced or intensive study, often based on self-guided study by the participants. It aims to provide a setting for students to further develop and practice the skills involved in “critical thinking” (CT)—the process by which we need to analyze complex issues and make forceful and well-grounded arguments. The central goal of this course is to empower the students to think more clearly and analytically about what they believe and be more effective in developing reasoned positions and making sound and compelling arguments that support those positions.
This book provides a guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking- from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey. Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed. Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including structured thinking, language skills, background knowledge, information literacy, intellectual humility, empathy and open-mindedness. Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it.
This is a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Part One discusses fairly simple arguments and moves to extended arguments and their use in essays and oral presentations at the end. Part Two offers model responses to the odd-numbered exercises in nearly every exercise set. Most model responses have commentaries that explain the strengths and weaknesses of each response. Part Three contains longer critical thinking activities that build on the rules and exercises in Part One. This third edition features updated and improved homework exercises, and a new chapter on engaging constructively in public debates.
The Communist Menafesto, also referred to as the Manifesto of the Communist Party, was first published on February 21, 1848 in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Commissioned by the Communist League and co-authoered by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program on the instruction of its Second Congress (London, November 29-December 8, 1847). The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society and the abolition of private property.
This book is a collection of readings that chart the historical and theoretical evolution of the field of international political economy from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this book outlines International Political Economy’s three dominant traditions of liberalism, economic nationalism, and Marxism, while also including theoretical perspectives beyond the dominant traditions such as mercantilism, poststructuralism, feminism, etc. This third edition not only retains by also increases the number of classic works from the previous editions while also updating the reader with contemporary writings.
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