Illustrations by Alex Raffi
This Fourth Edition of Richard Epstein’s nationally acclaimed text teaches students how to reason well and write good arguments.  It guides students to understand and apply the concepts of critical thinking in a clear, yet rigorous, way.  The text's cast of characters shows how the ideas work in everyday situations, using more than 150 cartoons and illustrations.  It includes over 1,000 exercises and examples, with hundreds new to this edition.  Building from simple definitions to the analysis of complex arguments, Critical Thinking clearly and carefully illustrates the art of reasoning in daily life.