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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
Matthew Van Cleave · Lansing Community College
This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a“critical thinking textbook.”
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Decoding Deception
Diana Daly and Kainan Jarrette · University of Arizona
Decoding Deception by Diana Daly and Kainan Jarrette is a dynamic multimedia OER that turns adults and college and high school students into expert lie detectors. This interactive guide blends humor, games, and activities with cognitive science and media literacy to reveal how biases, fallacies, and AI-fueled content can mislead us. Readers learn practical strategies for questioning sources, evaluating claims, and cutting through the noise of our post-truth era.
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A Concise Introduction to Logic
Craig DeLancey · SUNY Oswego
This text is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The text also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic.
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Animals & Ethics 101 - Thinking Critically About Animal Rights
Nathan Nobis · Morehouse College
This book provides an overview of the current debates about the nature and extent of our moral obligations to animals. Which, if any, uses of animals are morally wrong, which are morally permissible (i.e., not wrong) and why? What, if any, moral obligations do we, individually and as a society (and a global community), have towards animals and why? How should animals be treated? Why? We will explore the most influential and most developed answers to these questions.
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Fundamental Methods of Logic
Matthew Knachel · University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Fundamental Methods of Logic is suitable for a one-semester introduction to logic/critical reasoning course. It covers a variety of topics at an introductory level. Chapter One introduces basic notions, such as arguments and explanations, validity and soundness, deductive and inductive reasoning; it also covers basic analytical techniques, such as distinguishing premises from conclusions and diagramming arguments.
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Microbiology Lab Manual Sp 25
Valeria Hochman Adler · Coalinga College
This lab cover principles and applications of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure and function, biological molecules, homeostasis, cell reproduction and its controls, molecular genetics, classical/Mendelian genetics, cell metabolism including photosynthesis and respiration, and cellular communication. The philosophy of science, methods of scientific inquiry and experimental design are foundational to the course.
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Humanities: Prehistory to the 15th Century
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
The book Humanities: Prehistory to the 15th Century provides an interdisciplinary exploration of human history, culture, and artistic achievements from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages. It examines key cultural developments, including art, literature, philosophy, religion, and architecture, highlighting their societal contexts and global influences.
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Nursing
Nilgun Ulutasdemir Ed. · Gümüşhane University
This book covers topics from nursing history and philosophy, communication and ethics in nursing, nursingand culture. Thus, it can be used as a guide by student nurses and working nurses to recognize the nursing profession and to keep up with current developments. In this book, you will find all aspects of nursing profession.
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Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint
Catherine Wilson · University of York
This text addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ This book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices.
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An Introduction to Formal Logic
P.D. Magnus · University of Albany, State University of New York
This books treats symbolization, formal semantics, and proof theory for each language. The discussion of formal semantics is more direct than in many introductory texts. The book is designed to provide a semester's worth of material for an introductory college course. It would be possible to use the book only for sentential logic, by skipping chapters 4-5 and parts of chapter 6.
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Ethics in Life and Vocations
Mark Whitman · Alfred State College of Technology SUNY
As one can imagine, the ethical significance of each member of a Criminal Justice system is critical. I further assert that albeit this was written for self-serving interests to teach in the Criminal Justice discipline, I strongly believe that it remains sufficiently generic that it can fit in many other disciplines that accompanies professor imagination splicing your inventive juices.
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Modern Humanities (Turnbull and Ricciardi)
Michelle Turnbull, Paul Ricciardi, Matthew Forman, Monica Walker, Maria Rosario-Rodriguez, Andrew Wilder, Shannon McArdle, Donna Ryan, Matthew Hoffman · Kingsborough Community College
Through the exploration of modern literature, drama, art, film, poetry, and music, this course places developments in the Humanities into historical and philosophical contexts and illustrates the continuity of culture. This course introduces students to literature, philosophy, art, film, and music from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.
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Inferring and Explaining
Jeffery L. Johnson · Portland State University
Inferring and Explaining is a book in practical epistemology. It examines the notion of evidence and assumes that good evidence is the essence of rational thinking. Evidence is the cornerstone of the natural, social, and behavioral sciences. But it is equally central to almost all academic pursuits and, perhaps most importantly, to the basic need to live an intelligent and reflective life.
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Children's Programs Administration
Jennifer Marta & Hannah Knott · Coalinga College
In the contents: 1.10.03: Educational Philosophy · 2.02: Personal Philosophy Essay Questions · 3.03: Program Mission Vision and Philosophy
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Principles of Nutrition and Weight Management (Remix)
Wesley Meeteer · Concord University
In the contents: 1.3.02: A Healthy Philosophy toward Food
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Introduction to Financial Analysis
Kenneth S. Bigel · Touro University
In the contents: 14.02: The Philosophy of Equity Valuation
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Assessment of Students
Deborah Bowles · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 1.02: Teaching Philosophy
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Sets, Logic, Computation
Richard Zach et al. · Open Logic Project
Sets, Logic, Computation is an introductory textbook on metalogic. It covers naive set theory, first-order logic, sequent calculus and natural deduction, the completeness, compactness, and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems, Turing machines, and the undecidability of the halting problem and of first-order logic. The audience is undergraduate students with some background in formal logic.
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Nutri 300
Shara Sheldon · Cosumnes River College
In the contents: 2.02: A Healthy Philosophy toward Food
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Fundamentals of Infrastructure Management
Donald Coffelt and Chris Hendrickson · Carnegie Mellon University
This Fundamentals of Infrastructure Management text will expand the impact of the material and help improve the practice of infrastructure management. This book grew out of a decade of co-teaching a course entitled ‘Infrastructure Management' at Carnegie Mellon University. Our teaching philosophy was to prepare students for work in the field of infrastructure management. We believe that infrastructure management is a professional endeavor and an attractive professional career.