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Moore and Parker’s Critical Thinking is not about critical thinking as much as it is a text in critical thinking. It provides guided practice through hundreds of exercises and examples, to help students apply content and think critically themselves. With an enjoyable, concise reading style and a visually clear layout, Critical Thinking trains students to improve information acquisition skills, recognize dubious claims, and hone critically important skills. The authors’ expanded coverage on how to recognize dubious claims is gravely applicable in the current climate of fake news, deep fakes, and AI-created information. The authors provide guided practice in what instructors say are the most important critical thinking skill sets for students.  

About the Author

Brooke Noel Moore

Brooke Moore is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico, where he serves as Coordinator of the Critical Thinking Program. A former chair of the Philosophy and History departments, Moore was the University Outstanding Professor in 1996. He has served as a university Master Teacher and has coordinated the university’s program for mentoring new faculty. His publications include The Power of Ideas (with Kenneth Bruder), The Cosmos, God, and Philosophy (with Ralph J. Moore), A Comprehensive Introduction to Moral Philosophy (with Robert Stewart), and other works.

Richard Parker

Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He has been three times chair of the university's Faculty Senate, Dean of Undergraduate Education, and Executive Assistant to the President and has received Professional Achievement Honors for his academic work. He has published in analytic philosophy, critical thinking, and philosophy of law, and his views on punishment and responsibility have been included in major anthologies. Outside academia, Parker is a semiprofessional flamenco guitarist, performing with dancers around and about northern California; he rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, plays golf for fun and pool for money, and spends as much time as possible in southern Spain.

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Critical Thinking Paperback – January 1, 2006

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• Language English
• Publisher Mcgraw-Hill Education
• Publication date January 1, 2006
• Dimensions 8 x 0.7 x 9.5 inches
• ISBN-10 0071107053
• ISBN-13 978-0071107051
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mcgraw-Hill Education; 8th edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071107053
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071107051
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.7 x 9.5 inches

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Richard Parker

Richard Parker grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a resort town known as a vacation spot for mobsters until the 1950s. (See Stephen Hunter's novel named after the town for an account that is not entirely fiction.) He was an undergraduate at the University of Arkansas and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Washington, where he concentrated on logic and philosophy of law. He joined the philosophy department at California State University, Chico, in the 1970s, and also served there as chair of the university senate, dean for undergraduate education, and executive assistant to the president.

Now semi-retired, Richard drives a 1962 MG and rides a Harley-Davidson (not the bike in the photo; that one was hand-built by his brother). He plays golf, not always very well, and is a founding member of a Friday afternoon game at a local pool hall that has continued for 23 years. He is an accomplished flamenco guitarist and performs with dancer Mónica Taboada at various northern California venues.

Parker has written a weekly newspaper column and for ten years did a weekly commentary on North State Public Radio. During the 1990s, the commentaries were broadcast over 20 public radio stations in California.

Parker's collaboration with Brooke Moore on the critical thinking project produced a book that became the model for critical thinking texts throughout the industry. It has been the best-selling, most imitated, and most highly acclaimed book in the field for two decades. It is constantly updated so that students recognize the names in the examples and see the material presented in contexts that are familiar.

Parker spends part of most years in southern Spain, studying flamenco guitar and trying to learn Andalusian Spanish.

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