TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnet,Sylvan
AU  - Bedau,Hugo Adam
TI  - Current issues and enduring questions: a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings 
SN  - 0312412711 
AV  - BC177 .C86 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Bedford/St. Martin's
KW  - Reasoning
KW  - Logic
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes Index; Part 1: Critical Thinking and Reading
Chapter 1: Critical Thinking 
Chapter 2: Critical Reading : Getting started
Chapter 3: Critical Reading : Getting Deeper into Arguments 
Chapter 4: Visual Rhetoric : Images as Arguments 

Part 2: Critical Writing
Chapter 5: Writing an Analysis of an Argument 
Chapter 6: Developing an Argument of Your Own
Chapter 7: Using Sources

Part 3: Further Views on Argument
Chapter 8: A Philosopher's View: the Toulmin Model
Chapter 9: A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies
Chapter 10: A Moralist's View : Ways of Thinking Ethically
Chapter 11: A Lawyer's View : Steps Toward Civic Literacy
Chapter 12: A Psychologist's View : Rogerian Argument 
Chapter 13: A Literary Critic's view : Arguing about Literature

Chapter 14: A Forensic View : Oral Presentation and Debate

Part 4: Current Issues : Occasions for Debate 
Chapter 15: Abortion : whose Right to Life is it Anyway? 
Chapter 16: Affirmative Action : Is It Fair? 
Chapter 17: Cell Phones : Should Their Use While Driving be Prohibited? 
Chapter 18: Censorship : Should Public Libraries Filter Internet Sites? 
Chapter 19: Gay Marriages : Should They Be Legalized? 
Chapter 20: Gun Control : Would It Really Help? 

Part 5: Current Issues : Casebooks 
Chapter 21: The Death Penalty : Can It Ever Be Justified?  
Chapter 22: Drugs : Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized? 
Chapter 23: Euthanasia : Should d=Doctors Intervene at the End of Life? 
Chapter 24: The Just War : What Are the Criteria? 
Chapter 25: Privacy : What are Its Limits? 
Chapter 26: Reparations : Under the Circumstances are they Appropriate? 
Chapter 27: Sexual Harassment: Is There Any Doubt about What It Is?
Chapter 28: Torture : Is It every Justifiable?

Part 6: Enduring Questions : Essays, Stories, Poems and a Play 
Chapter 29: What Is the Ideal Society?
Chapter 30: How Free is the Will of the Individual Within Society? 
Chapter 31: What is Happiness?
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