Current issues and enduring questions : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings / Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.

Author: Barnet, Sylvan.

Edition Statement:5th ed.

Imprint:Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999.

Descriptionxxxi, 156 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Part One: Critical thinking and reading. 1. Critical thinking ; 2. Critical reading: getting started ; 3. Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- Part Two: Critical writing. 4. Writing an analysis of an argument ; 5. Developing an argument of your own ; 6. Using sources -- Part Three: Further views on argument. 7. A philosopher's view: the Toulmin model ; 8. A logician's view: deduction, induction, fallacies ; 9. A psychologist's view: Rogerian argument ; 10. A lawyer's view: steps toward civic literacy ; 11. A literary critic's view: arguing about literature -- Part Four: Current issues: pro-con debates. 12. Abortion: Whose right to life is it anyway? ; 13. Affirmative action: Is it fair? ; 14. Gay marriages: Should they be legalized? ; 15. Gun control: Would it really help? ; 16. Sex education: Should condoms be distributed in schools? -- Part Five: Current issues: casebooks. 17. Censoring the internet: Is it necessary? ; 18. Cloning: Dare we replicate human beings? ; 19. The death penalty: Can it ever be justified? ; 20. Drugs: Should their sale and use be legalized? ; 21. The environment: Natural resource or raw material? 22. Euthanasia: Should doctors intervene at the end of life? ; 23. Multiculturalism: What is it, and is it good or bad? ; 24. Sexual harassment: Is there any doubt about what it is? ; 25. Violence on TV: Do children need to be protected? -- Part Six: Enduring questions: Essays, stories, poems, and plays. 26. What is the ideal society? 27. how free is the will of the individual within society? ; 28. What are the grounds of religious faith? -- Appendix: World wide web sources for current issues.

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