Maintaining that the ultimate goal of critical reasoning is to make informed, educated decisions, this text presents a process that enables the reader to apply proper reasoning techniques in a practical fashion. This book is balanced between three activities: identification of arguments, evaluation of arguments using inductive reasoning, and evaluation of arguments using deductive reasoning. For computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, or anyone who is interested in using the practical applications of logic to evaluate their own writing and arguments as well as the writing and arguments of others.

Critical Reasoning and Logic

Politics & Social Sciences

Boyd, Robert

Philosophy

Pearson

This supplementary text focuses on the connection between critical thinking and the writing process. A section of writing prompts in the book allows instructors to use the prompt that is appropriate for courses ranging from philosophy to English (e.g. writing across the curriculum) to history.

Writing with Logic in Mind

Wadsworth Publishing

Extensively rewritten and expanded, this book aims to help physicians with the real problems of pediatric care in a family practice setting. The authors have concentrated on problems that are either common or, if rare, are life-threatening and therefore must be considered when the doctor examines a sick child. The prevention of ill health, psychosocial problems, asthma, and common infectious diseases figure prominently. New topics covered include: the teenage mother, sexual abuse, care of low birth weight babies, the role of allergy in disease, and recent advances in prenatal diagnostic techniques.

Paediatric Problems in General Practice (Oxford General Practice Series)

Modell, Michael

Medical Books

Oxford University Press

This tremendously popular guide to caring for children's health in the primary care setting has been completely revised and updated for the new edition. It includes guidance on the implications of the Children's Act and child protection, Health for All Children, screening in pregnancy, asthma management, and other recent changes in practice and in the law. Dr Mughal's addition to the editorship ensures that this is the most reliable and up-to-date book available for the primary health care team.

Reference

Mughal, Zulf

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition Series)

Richerson, Peter J.

Social Sciences

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)

How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.

Culture and the Evolutionary Process

Sociology

University of Chicago Press

How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral modeling that includes both mathematics and evolutionary theory, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution aims to make the student and professional researcher in biology and the social sciences fully conversant in the language of the field.Teaching biological concepts from which models can be developed, Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd introduce readers to many of the typical mathematical tools that are used to analyze evolutionary models and end each chapter with a set of problems that draw upon these techniques. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution equips behaviorists and evolutionary biologists with the mathematical knowledge to truly understand the models on which their research depends. Ultimately, McElreath and Boyd’s goal is to impart the fundamental concepts that underlie modern biological understandings of the evolution of behavior so that readers will be able to more fully appreciate journal articles and scientific literature, and start building models of their own.

McElreath, Richard

Anthropology

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral modeling that includes both mathematics and evolutionary theory, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution aims to make the student and professional researcher in biology and the social sciences fully conversant in the language of the field. Teaching biological concepts from which models can be developed, Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd introduce readers to many of the typical mathematical tools that are used to analyze evolutionary models and end each chapter with a set of problems that draw upon these techniques. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution equips behaviorists and evolutionary biologists with the mathematical knowledge to truly understand the models on which their research depends. Ultimately, McElreath and Boyd’s goal is to impart the fundamental concepts that underlie modern biological understandings of the evolution of behavior so that readers will be able to more fully appreciate journal articles and scientific literature, and start building models of their own.

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Critical Reasoning and Logic

Writing with Logic in Mind

Paediatric Problems in General Practice (Oxford General Practice Series)

Paediatric Problems in General Practice (Oxford General Practice Series)

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition Series)

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)

Culture and the Evolutionary Process

Culture and the Evolutionary Process

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed