Thinking through Words

Robert DiYanni is Professor of Humanities at New York University, USA, where he serves on the faculties of the School of Professional Studies and the Stern School of Business, following a decade in the College of Arts and Science. His publications include The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking (2014), Critical and Creative Thinking: A Brief Guide for Teachers (2015), and Critical Reading Across the Curriculum (with Anton Borst; 2017).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Critical Thinking and Understanding 1. Why We Need Critical Thinking2. How We Acquire Knowledge3. Decisive Thinking: Making Good DecisionsPart II: Argument and Persuasion4. Argument Basics: Claims and Evidence / Assumptions and Implications5. Key Aspects of Argument: Causality and Correlation / Authority and Analogy 6. Rhetoric: Its Dangers and Its UsesPart III: Obstacles to Productive Thinking7. Inductive Thinking Fallacies8. Cognitive Biases and Thinking BlocksPart IV: Pathways to Creative Thinking9. Some Lateral Thinking Tools 10. Creative Thinking Strategies and TechniquesPart V: Thinking with Some Master Thinkers11. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir12. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore13. Susanne K. Langer and Jerome S. Bruner14. Richard Feynman and Daniel KahnemanAppendix A: Varieties of Future ThinkingAppendix B: Thinking About Artificial Intelligence ReferencesIndex