Chapter 1: “The Parts of Public Thinking: Deductive Argument”
Chapter 2: “Evidence Adds Up”
Chapter 3: “Language, Non-Language, and Argument”
Chapter 4: “Fallacies: When Arguments Turn Bad”
Chapter 5: “Critical Thinking about Numbers”
Chapter 6: “Probability and Statistics: Reasoning from Incomplete Information”
Chapter 7: “Biases Within Reason”
Chapter 8: “The More We Get Together: Social Cognition and the Flow of Information”
Chapter 9: “Critical Reasoning about Science: Cases and Lessons”
Chapter 10: “The Mainstream Media as a Source of Information”
Chapter 11: “Readings and Discussions”
