Download or read book Reflections on Reasoning written by Raymond S. Nickerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an adaptation of a report entitled Notes about Reasoning, prepared under a project on The Training of Higher Cognitive Learning and Thinking Skills that was sponsored by the National Institute of Education. My purpose in producing the notes was to help me clarify my own thinking about reasoning and how the ability to reason effectively might be enhanced in the classroom. I did not intend to write a textbook on reasoning or a scholarly review of research on reasoning processes, and this book is not presented as either now. It still has the character of a collection of thoughts; it is being published with the hope that some of the ideas and suggestions in it may stimulate some others, especially teachers and students, to reflect more than they otherwise might have upon what it means to reason effectively. One does not, of course, become an effective reasoner by reading a book on reasoning or by taking a course in reasoning. Learning to reason well is surely a lifelong process—or at least a lifelong challenge. If this book is useful in helping some readers to see the value of an enduring commitment to that challenge, it will have served its purpose. I wish to thank the NIE Project Officers, Patricia Butler and Joseph Psotka, for their support and encouragement. I am grateful also to John Swets, Richard Herrnstein, David Perkins and Carol Chomsky for helpful comments on an early draft of the manuscript, to Anne Kerwin and Patricia Carroll for typing the manuscript and to Brenda Starr and Frank DiPace for making electronic delivery of it to the printer possible by working around the differences between the sending and receiving systems. Special thanks to my wife, Doris, for her constant help of countless types, and most especially for bringing into the world the four beautiful people to whom this book is dedicated.
Download or read book Reflections on Reasoning written by Raymond S. Nickerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Reflections on Reasoning Is a clearly written introduction that guides high school and college students, teachers, and parents through straightforward discussions on the nature of logic, belief, and argument. While examining the nature of reasoning, Nickerson offers practical examples from everyday life to Illustrate how we can become more effective and self-aware in our reasoning.
Download or read book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning written by Andy Hunt and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in full color. Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware. Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built. We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. In this book you'll learn how to: Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common "known bugs" in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently
Download or read book Routines for Reasoning written by Grace Kelemanik and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routines can keep your classroom running smoothly. Now imagine having a set of routines focused not on classroom management, but on helping students develop their mathematical thinking skills. Routines for Reasoning provides expert guidance for weaving the Standards for Mathematical Practice into your teaching by harnessing the power of classroom-tested instructional routines. Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta, and Susan Janssen Creighton have applied their extensive experience teaching mathematics and supporting teachers to crafting routines that are practical teaching and learning tools. -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Taming Intuition written by Kevin Arceneaux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals vary in their ability to reflect on and override partisan impulses, affecting their ability to rationally evaluate politicians.
Download or read book Reflections on Reason written by Howie Todoit and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pave Your Path to Greater Wisdom with Mastery Over Critical ThinkingIn the realm of personal and professional success, there is one skill that outshines all others -- critical thinking. "Reflections on Reason: A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking" is more than just a book; it is an exceptional pathway towards logical reasoning and cogent thinking that empowers you to make insightful decisions and effectively tackle complex problems. This comprehensive guide enlightens you about the indispensable importance of critical thinking. Whether you're questioning the status quo, developing innovative strategies, or sorting fake news from facts, this book illustrates how mastering critical thinking can have a transformative impact on your everyday life. Anchoring you to the key concepts and the intricate characteristics of critical thinkers, chapter two demystifies what constitutes critical thinking. It elaborates on the nuances of logical reasoning, highlighting the distinctions and implications of deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning. The subsequent chapters remarkably transform the abstract concept of thinking into a structured process. From identification and clarification to information gathering and assumption forming, the intelligent process of logical reasoning is thoroughly dissected. Arm yourself with the profound understanding of a questioning mind and the different styles of inquiry to achieve intelligent conclusions.Imagine being able to rationalize, analyze, and determine the course of action that leads to the best possible outcomes. With this book, implementing critical thinking in your daily life and work is no longer a herculean task. Learn about popular methodologies like the Socratic Method, the RED Model, and SWOT Analysis that collectively encompass crucial tools and techniques to bolster your cognitive abilities.However, the journey to becoming an adept critical thinker is not devoid of impediments. Cognitive biases, emotional barriers, and intellectual laziness are common yet conquerable obstacles. This book offers effective strategies to overcome these hurdles and nourish intellectual curiosity. To put theory into practice, case studies reflecting real-life scenarios are comprehensively discussed. These not only refine your understanding of the subject but render a practical perspective of how this invaluable skill can be harnessed effectively.A gem for lifelong learners, professionals, students, decision-makers, and everyone passionate about self-improvement, "Reflections on Reason: A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking" is your sure-shot guide to critical thinking prowess. Embark on this enlightening journey, and equip yourself with an arsenal of logic and reason to excel in various walks of life.
Download or read book Reflections on the Musical Mind written by Jay Schulkin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.
Download or read book Talking to Our Selves written by John M. Doris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgment and behavior ordered by accurate reflection. On such theories, when human beings are able to direct their lives in the manner philosophers have dignified with the honorific 'agency', it's because they know what they're doing, and why they're doing it. This understanding is compromised by quantities of psychological research on unconscious processing, which suggests that accurate reflection is distressingly uncommon; very often behavior is ordered by surprisingly inaccurate self-awareness. Thus, if agency requires accurate reflection, people seldom exercise agency, and skepticism about agency threatens. To counter the skeptical threat, John M. Doris proposes an alternative theory that requires neither reflection nor accurate self-awareness: he identifies a dialogic form of agency where self-direction is facilitated by exchange of the rationalizations with which people explain and justify themselves to one another. The result is a stoutly interdisciplinary theory sensitive to both what human beings are like—creatures with opaque and unruly psychologies-and what they need: an account of agency sufficient to support a practice of moral responsibility.
Download or read book Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions written by Joy Higgs and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical reasoning is the foundation of professional clinical practice. Totally revised and updated, this book continues to provide the essential text on the theoretical basis of clinical reasoning in the health professions and examines strategies for assisting learners, scholars and clinicians develop their reasoning expertise. key chapters revised and updated nature of clinical reasoning sections have been expanded increase in emphasis on collaborative reasoning core model of clinical reasoning has been revised and updated
Download or read book Making Thinking Visible written by Ron Ritchhart and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.
Download or read book Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions E Book written by Joy Higgs and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical reasoning is the foundation of professional clinical practice. Totally revised and updated, this book continues to provide the essential text on the theoretical basis of clinical reasoning in the health professions and examines strategies for assisting learners, scholars and clinicians develop their reasoning expertise. key chapters revised and updated nature of clinical reasoning sections have been expanded increase in emphasis on collaborative reasoning core model of clinical reasoning has been revised and updated
Download or read book Making Sense of Numbers written by Jane E. Miller and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Numbers teaches students the skills they need to be both consumers and producers of quantitative research: able to read about, collect, calculate, and communicate numeric information for both everyday tasks and school or work assignments. The text teaches how to avoid making common errors of reasoning, calculation, or interpretation by introducing a systematic approach to working with numbers, showing students how to figure out what a particular number means. The text also demonstrates why it is important to apply a healthy dose of skepticism to the numbers we all encounter, so that we can understand how those numbers can (and cannot) be interpreted in their real-world context. Jane E. Miller uses annotated examples on a wide variety of topics to illustrate how to use new terms, concepts, and approaches to working with numbers. End-of-chapter engagement activities designed based on Miller’s three decades of teaching experience can be used in class or as homework assignments, with some for students to do individually and others intended for group discussion. The book is ideally suited for a range of courses, including quantitative reasoning, research methods, basic statistics, data analysis, and communicating quantitative information. An instructor website for the book includes a test bank, editable PowerPoint slides, and tables and figures from the book.
Download or read book Confrontations Philosophical Reflections and Aphorisms written by and published by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Ontology. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy, German. 4.Thought and thinking. 5. Philosophy, Asian. 6. Philosophy, Indic. 7. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.8. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. 9. Practice (Philosophy). 10. Philosophy and civilization. 11. Postmodernism. 12. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. 13. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 14. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- Germany -- Todtnauberg.15. Nagarjuna, 2nd cent. I. Ferrer, Daniel Fidel, 1952-. Written between 2005 and 2011.
Download or read book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire written by Sadi Carnot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title essay, along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition.
Download or read book New Waves in Philosophical Logic written by G. Restall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics.
Download or read book Science Method and Argument in Galileo written by Maurice A. Finocchiaro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo’s life and thought—his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as “father of modern science.” These republished essays include many hard to find articles, out of print works, and chapters which are not available online. The collection provides an excellent resource of the author's lifelong dedication to the subject. Thus, the book contains critical analyses of some key Galilean arguments about the laws of falling bodies and the Copernican hypothesis of the earth’s motion. There is also a group of chapters in which Galileo’s argumentation is compared and contrasted with that of other figures such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Giordano Bruno, and his musicologist father Vincenzo Galilei. The chapters on Galileo’s trial illustrate an approach to the science-vs-religion issue which Finocchiaro labels “para-clerical” and conceptualizes in terms of a judicious consideration of arguments for and against Galileo and the Church. Other essays examine argumentation about Galileo’s life and thought by the major Galilean scholars of recent decades. The book will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, history of science, history of religion, philosophy of religion, argumentation, rhetoric, and communication studies.
Download or read book Clinical and Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy written by Barbara A. Boyt Schell and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook lets readers develop the strong theoretical and practical foundation needed for effective decision-making in occupational therapy. Emphasis on both clinical and professional reasoning gives readers the skills needed to make informed decisions as practitioners, managers, and educators. This textbook offers easy-to-follow explanations of current theories of clinical and professional reasoning, demonstrating their relevance to occupational therapy work. "Thinking about Thinking" quotes offer thought-provoking perspectives on reasoning. Case examples and learning activities demonstrate how reasoning is applied in various clinical and professional scenarios. Each chapter includes learning objectives and a key word list. Photographs, figures, and tables support reader understanding.
