Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking

It's got interesting insights, but unless you can see how and why they got there, you won't learn how to think critically. Still, an excellent tool.

"Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking," 8th ed. is everything I have ever hoped for in a text on critical thinking. It is nearly jargon free. It focuses on how we--students and instructor alike--come to think the way we do, how to recognize critical thinking weaknesses in ourselves and others, and how to take this knowledge and apply it not only to coursework but also to our lives. Chapters are mercifully short, easily accessible, and filled with contemporary applications, which the students enjoy. As the students progress through the text, they find topics recycled. Each time the same topics reappear, the students are able to refine their critical thinking processes and points of view. Most importantly, however, my students tell me that "Beyond Thinking" is not only relevant and easily understandable, but also fun to read. What more can an instructor ask for in a text?

This is a great reference book! It came as advertised. I needed this book for a college course.

This book by vincent ruggiero is superbly written with each critical thinking skills and caveats not been taken for more than 5 pages with applications at the end of the chapter.Hence its quite readable. About the content it helps you figure out what factors affects you in taking a decision and how to go about resolving that with a strategy.All this in plain English.In this world with flood of information,this book will help you bring the ideas you hear from people and read through media at the bar of reason and critical reasoning.Beyond Feelings gets a 5 star straight.

This is an excellent book for teaching and learning the basics of critical thinking.