Critical Thinking offers a comprehensive and accessible approach to recognizing, constructing, and evaluating logical arguments. Direct and engaging, Lawless's narrative succinctly introduces readers to such essential topic as deductive and inductive reasoning, sentential logic and syllogisms, fallacies and biases, validity and soundness, and the scientific method. Brimming with indispensable examples, exercises, and advice, Critical Thinking helps students build the knowledge and skills they need to think critically and reason well, both in their academic studies and in their everyday lives.

Andrew Lawless is a professor in the Department of Humanities at Vanier College.

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"I am very impressed with the depth of the work that has gone into this book. . . . The explicit point-by-point breakdown of arguments serves the material well, as does the accumulation, development, and coherence of the material within and between chapters." --David Scully, Algonquin College

"This book is clearly written and approachable . . . with lots of examples and helpful exercises. It offers close, unusually detailed guidance which other texts dealing with the same topics do not provide." --Robert Fahrnkopf, Douglas College