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  | | How to Reason + Reasoning in the Sciences by Richard L. Epstein, Alex Raffi Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2019 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-40-2, ISBN: 1-938421-40-X "Too often we’re guided by what we last heard, by our friends’ approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears. Without reflection. Without even stopping to think. ** In this book you’ll learn how to reason and find your way better in life. You’ll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say and do. You’ll learn to see the assumptions that you and others make. You’ll learn how to judge what you should believe. These are t ..." |
 | | How to Reason A Practical Guide by Richard L. Epstein, Alex Raffi Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2019 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-38-9, ISBN: 1-938421-38-8 "Too often we’re guided by what we last heard, by our friends’ approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears. Without reflection. Without even stopping to think. ** In this book you’ll learn how to reason and find your way better in life. You’ll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say and do. You’ll learn to see the assumptions that you and others make. You’ll learn how to judge what you should believe. These are t ..." |
 | | An Introduction to Formal Logic Second Edition (Paperback) by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2020 by Advanced Reasoning Forum, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-52-5, ISBN: 1-938421-52-3 "A book that makes sense of formal logic." |
 | | The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking fifth edition(5th Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Alex Raffi Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2016 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-29-7, ISBN: 1-938421-29-9 "First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. *** The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking teaches very clearly the essential skills to reason better--for classwork, for writing, and in everyday life. Hundreds of pertinent, analyzed, and engaging examples from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, radio, as well as dialogues of cartoon characters illustrate how to analyze arguments and make better decisions. The Pocket Guide is bo ..." |
 | | Classical Mathematical Logic The Semantic Foundations of Logic by Richard L. Epstein, Leslaw W. Szczerba Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2006 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12300-4, ISBN: 0-691-12300-4 "In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not only of arithmetic, but also of group theory, field theory, and linear orderings. These lead to the formalization of the real numbers and Eu ..." |
 | | Guía Breve Para El Pensamiento Crítico (Spanish Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Manuel A. Dahlquist, Juan Francisco Rizzo Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2018 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-36-5, ISBN: 1-938421-36-1 "Lo primero es pensar con claridad; después, escribir con claridad. La Guía breve para el pensamiento crítico lo ayudará a desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para razonar bien en sus estudios y en la vida cotidiana. Incluye cientos de ejemplos claros, divertidos y detallados que lo ayudarán a analizar argumentos y tomar mejores decisiones. La Guía breve para el pensamiento crítico es perfecta como libro de texto para cursos de pensam ..." |
 | | The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2013 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-05-1, ISBN: 1-938421-05-1 "This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently. The ques ..." |
 | | The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking(4th Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Alex Raffi, Carolyn Kernberger Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2011 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-0-9815507-7-0, ISBN: 0-9815507-7-0 "First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. The extraordinarily clear explanations in the Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking provide the essential skills to reason better-for classwork, for writing, and for use in everyday life. The book employs an abundance of engaging examples from everyday life that illustrate how to analyze arguments and make better decisions. The Pocket Guide is both the perfect supplement for a ..." |
 | | Critical Thinking(3rd Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Carolyn Kernberger, Alex Raffi Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2005 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-58348-4, ISBN: 0-534-58348-2 "Critical thinking isn't as easy as it sounds. CRITICAL THINKING shows you how decision-making errors are made, and how to avoid them. By combining simple explanations with time-tested theories, CRITICAL THINKING helps you meet the challenges of life head-on. And because it includes over one thousand examples drawn from everyday life and tons of study tools, this textbook helps you get the grade you need." |
 | | Workbook for Critical Thinking(1st Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Illustrator-Alex Raffi Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 1998 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-55840-6, ISBN: 0-534-55840-2 "Contains exercises integrated with the main text, with ample space to answer the exercises in a standardized format. Provides reinforcement of the techniques for analyzing arguments. Contains cartoons from the main text as well as 400 additional cartoons." |
 | | Critical Thinking(5th Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Michael Rooney, Alex Raffi Paperback, 524 Pages, Published 2017 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-32-7, ISBN: 1-938421-32-9 "This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach. Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day. More than 1,000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives. Essay writing lessons and visual writing lessons, using the cast of chara ..." |
 | | Reasoning in Science and Mathematics by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2011 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-0-9834521-2-6, ISBN: 0-9834521-2-1 "This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students. The body of each essay gives the main development of the subject, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The topic of this volume is the nature and evaluation of reasoning in science and mathematics. Science and mathematics can both be understood a ..." |
 | | Critical Thinking,(4th Edition) by Richard L. Epstein, Michael Rooney, Alex Raffi Paperback, 454 Pages, Published 2012 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-02-0, ISBN: 1-938421-02-7 "Epstein's CRITICAL THINKING sets new standards of clarity for teaching how to reason well in daily life and how to write well. With over one thousand everyday examples and exercises, the text engages and challenges the student. Featuring its own cast of cartoon characters, it is the only text on critical thinking in which students work with illustrations to convert the non-verbal into arguments and arrive at conceptual understanding. ..." |
 | | Propositional Logics(2nd Edition) The Semantic Foundations of Logic by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 525 Pages, Published 2000 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-55847-5, ISBN: 0-534-55847-X "This book is a survey and overview of the major systems of propositional logics, answering the question, "If logic is the right way to reason, why are there so many logics?" Each system is presented both formally and with philosophical motivation in Epstein's renowned clear style." |
 | | The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking(1st Edition) by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1999 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-55844-4, ISBN: 0-534-55844-5 "This little book is a summary and guide to the art of reasoning well in daily life. Epstein's larger text, CRITICAL THINKING, upon which this is based, set a new standard of pedagogical excellence and provided a well-integrated approach to the subject. Friendly and easy to learn from, this short book provides the same benefits in a trimmed-down fashion, without the cartoon illustrations. It also includes revised examples which are more ..." |
 | | Critical Thinking(1st Edition) by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1998 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-55839-0, ISBN: 0-534-55839-9 "Featuring its own cast of characters, a personal and accessible tone, and carefully crafted in step-by-step units, this book sets a new standard of clarity for presenting the subject matter. Extensively class-tested, the text uses an enormous number of everyday examples and exercises to illuminate key points and ideas. It is the only text in philosophy in which students work with cartoons to convert the non-verbal into arguments and arr ..." |
 | | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society Ser. Minimal Degrees of Unsolvability and the Full Approximation Construction by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 1975 by Amer Mathematical Society ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-1862-6, ISBN: 0-8218-1862-7 "Abstract analysis to ALEXANDRA IONESCU TULCEA, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201. Algebra and number theory (excluding universal algebras) to STEPHEN S. SHATZ, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19174. Logic, foundations, universal algebras and combinatorics to ALISTAIR H. LACHLAN, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 2, B.C., Canada. ..." |
 | | Reasoning and Formal Logic by Richard L. Epstein Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2015 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-03-7, ISBN: 1-938421-03-5 "This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The basic theme here is the analysis of formal logic in terms of what metaphysical assumptions we need when we develop the formal systems we use. The essays to ..." |
 | | Propositional Logics Third Edition by Richard L. Epstein Hardcover, 510 Pages, Published 2012 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-0-9834521-6-4, ISBN: 0-9834521-6-4 "Propositional Logics presents the history, philosophy, and mathematics of the major systems of propositional logic. Classical logic, modal logics, many-valued logics, intuitionism, paraconsistent logics, and dependent implication are examined in separate chapters. Each begins with a motivation in the originators' own terms, followed by the standard formal semantics, syntax, and completeness theorem. The chapters on the various logics ..." |
 | | Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations by Richard L. Epstein, Alex Raffi Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2011 by Advanced Reasoning Forum ISBN-13: 978-0-9834521-0-2, ISBN: 0-9834521-0-5 "This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of reasoning, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently of the others. The t ..." |
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