Interesting Books on Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking

• Logical Analysis: A new Approach by Richard L. Connnell, The Print Shop of Edina, 1973.
• The Art of Reasoning by David Kelley, Norton & Co., 1^st ed,, 1988.
• The Power of Logical Thinking by Marilyn Vos Savant, St Martins Griffin, 1997.

Epistemology and Logic

• An Introduction to Logic by H. W. B. Joseph, Oxford, 2^nd ed. 1916.
• Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems by Gensler, Prentice Hall, 1990.
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand,

Language:

• Twice A Less by Eleanor Orr, Norton Press, 1987.

Inductive Inference

• Epistemology and Inference by Henry Kyburg, Jr. Univ. of Minnesota, 1983.
• Patterns of Plausible Inference by G. Polya, Princeton Press 1954.

Causality

• The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy 1673-1739 by Ken Clatterbaugh, Routledge, ‘99.

Causality and Chance

• Causality and Chance in Modern Physics by David Bohm, Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 1957.
• Causality and Modern Science by Mario Bunge, Dover, 1963.
• Chance, Cause and Reason by Arthur Burks, Univ. Chicago Press, 1977.
• Understanding Causality by Jean Piaget, W.W. Norton & Co., 1974.
• The Idea of Chance in Children by Piaget and Inhelder, Norton 1975.

Decision Making

• Decision Analysis: Choices Under Uncertainty by Raiffa, Addison-Wesley, 1970.
• Decisions with Multiple Objectives by Keeney and Raiffa, Wiley, 1976.
• Rational Decision and Causality by Ellery Eells, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.

Applications in Economics

• Hidden Order, The Economics of Everyday Life by David Friedman, Harper Business, 1996.

Philosophy of Science (The Scientific Method)

• Cause, Experiment and Science by Stillman Drake, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981.
• A Beginner's Guide to Scientific Method by Stephen Carey, Wadsworth Publ., 1994.

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