Critical Thinking Monographs, Etc.

Anderson, Wilda. Diderot's Dream. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins U Pr., 1990.

Aylwin, Susan. Analysis and Communication at Alverno: An Approach to Critical Thinking. Milwaukee, Wis.: Alverno Productions, 1984.

Bailin, S., Achieving Extraordinary Ends: An Essay on Creativity, Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1988.

Bareham, Steve. The Business of Thinking: Helping Employees to Think Better: an Organizational "Win-Win-Win" for People, Productivity & Profits. Nelson BC: Compcomm, 2000.

Barnes, Donald L. Reading and Critical Thinking. New York: Educational Design, Inc., 1998.

Basseches, Michael. Dialectical Thinking and Adult Development. Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1984.

Beyer, Barry K. Developing a Thinking Skills Program. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1988.

Bloom, Benjamin. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York, 1956. 

The scheme of cognitive levels developed here, beginning with knowledge and comprehension, then advancing to application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, is the conceptual framework supporting the drive for more emphasis in teaching on the mastery of higher level cognitive skills.

Brink-Budgen, Roy van den. Critical Thinking for Students: How to assess Arguments and Effectively Present Your Own. 2nd ed. Oxford: How To Books, 1999.

Brookfield, Stephen D. Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting. 1987.

Browne, M. Neil. Asking the Right Questions: a Guide to Critical Thinking. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Carr, Craig L. On Fairness. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy Ser. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Caruana, Louis. Holism and the Understanding of Science: Integrating the Analytical, Historical and Sociological. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Chaffee, John. The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.

Clifford, W. K. Lectures and Essays. eds. Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock: London: Macmillan, 1986.

Coles, Gerald. The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at "Learning Disabilities". New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Conference on Critical Thinking (1985: Christopher Newport College), 1985.

Corbett, Edward P.J. The Elements of Reasoning. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Corcoran, Joseph. Critical Thinking Through Debate. Revised. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1999.

Cox, Kenneth R. Doctor and Patient: Exploring Critical Thinking. Sydney, Lancaster: University of New South Wales Press, 2000.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: a Brief Guide to Argument. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Critical Thinking: Educational Imperative. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1991

Englefield, F. Ronald H. The Mind at Work and Play. Promethius Books, 1985.

Facione, Peter A. Critical Thinking: What it is and Why it Counts: a Resource Paper. Millbrae, CA: California Academic Press, 1998.

Faust, David. The Limits of Scientific Reasoning. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Finocchiaro, Maurice F. Galileo and the Art of Reasoning, Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method. Dordrecht/ Boston/ London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980.

Freeley, Austin J. Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 10th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000.

Friedman, Sarah L.; Schotnick, Ellin Kofsky; and Cocking, Rodney R. Blueprints for Thinking. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gardner, Peter S. New Direction: and Integrated Approach to Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of         Human Reason in Everyday Life. 1991.

Gustafson, Jean Louise. Pro & Con: an Exploration of Social Issues. 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 2000.

Halpern, Diane F. Thought and Knowledge. L. Erlbaum Associates, 1984.

Harnadek, Anita. Critical Thinking, Book 1. Pacific Grove, CA: Critical Thinking Press & Software, 1998.

Heidegger, Martin. The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic. translated by Michael Heim: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Heiman, Marcia. Critical Thinking Skills. Washington, D.C.: National Education Association, 1985.

Herrick, James A. Argumentation: Understanding and Shaping Arguments. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.

Hughes, William H. Critical Thinking: an Introduction to the Basic Skills. 3rd. ed. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2000.

Imel, Susan. Teaching Critical Relection. Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, Center on Education and Training for Employment, College of Education , the Ohio State University, 1998.

Inhelder, Barbel, and Denys de Caprona, and Angela Cornu-Wells. Piaget Today. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987.

Inhelder, Barbel, and Jean Piaget. The Early Growth of Logic in the Child. New York and Evanston, 1964.

Johnson, Andrew P. Up and Out: Using Creative and Critical Thinking Skills to Enhance Learning. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Jones, Debra. Exploring the Internet Using Critical Thinking Skills: A Self-Paced Workbooki for Learning to Effectively Use the Internet and Evaluate Online Information. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1998.

Kanar, Carol C. The Confident Student. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1991.

Kelly, Stewart Emmett. Thinking Well: and Introduction to Critical Thinking. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Co., 2000.

Kurfiss, Joanne Gainen. Critical Thinking: Theory, Research, Practice, and Possibilities. 1988.

Lengefeld, Uelaine A. Study Skills Strategies: Your Guide to Critical Thinking. Los Altos, Ca.: Crisp Publications,             1987.

Levi, Don S. In Defense of Informal Logic. Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2000.

Loaker, Georgine. Analysis and Communication at Alverno: An Approach to Critical Thinking. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Alverno Productions, 1984.

Mackie, John Leslie. Logic and Knowledge. Clarendon Press, 1985.

Maiorana, Victor P. The Analytical College Student: How to Learn and Study in College: Understand Subject Matter and Develop Your Ability to Critically Think, Read, Write, Listen. Melville, NY: Rosebrooke Publishing, 1999.

Manlove, C. N. Critical Thinking: A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

McKay, Thomas J. Reason and Explanations: Guidelines for Critical Thinking. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.

McLaren, Peter. Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundatioin of Education. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1998.

McMullin, Ernan. ed. Construction and Constraint: The Shaping of Scientific Rationality. Notre Dame: University Notre Dame Press, 1988.

McPeck, John E. Critical Thinking and Education. New York, 1981.

McPeck, John E. Critical Thinking and Education. Oxford: Martin Robertson & Company Ltd., 1981.

McPeck, John E. Critical Thinking and Education. St. Martin, 1984.

A controversial and stimulating work that questions the value of much being done in informal logic and critical thinking, and in particular disputes that critical thinking can be taught in any way other than in the separate academic disciplines.

McPeck. John E. Teaching Critical Thinking: Dialogue and Dialectic. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Media Matters: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Educational Publishing, 1999.

Mentkowski, Marcia. Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

Michalos, Alex C. Foundations of Decision-Making. Ottawa: Canadian Library of Philosophy, 1978.

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London, 1859.

Mitchell, Richard. Less the Words Can Say. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

Mitchell, Richard. The Graves of Academe. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

Mitroff, Ian I. The Unbound Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Moore, Brooke Noel. Critical Thinking. 6th ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 2000.

Moore, Kathleen Dean. Patterns of Inductive Reasoning: Developing Critical Thinking Skills. 4th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1998.

Neilson, Allan R. Critical Thinking and Reading: Empowering Learners to Think and Act. 1989.

Neimark, Edith. Adventures in Thinking. Chicago, IL: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1987.

Nelson, Jack L., Stuart B. Palonsky, and Kenneth Carlson. Critical Issues in Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1990.

Nolt, John E. Informal Logic: Possible Works & Imagination. McGraw, 1984.

Norris, Stephen P. Evaluating Critical Thinking. Pacific Grove, CA: Midwest Publications, 1989.

Pauker, Robert A. Teaching Thinking and Reasoning Skills: Problems and Solutions. Arlington, VA: American Association of School Administrators, 1987.

Paul, Richard. Critical Thinking: How to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World. Santa Rosa, Ca.: Foundation for             Critical Thinking, 1993.

Paul, Richard. Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly Changing World. 1990.

Paulos, John Allen. I Think, Therefore I Laugh. Columbia University Press, 1985.

Perspectives in Critical Thinking: Essays by Teachers in Theory and Practice. New York: P. Lang, 2000.

Peters, R. S. Education and the Education of Teachers, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.

Peters, R. S. Reason and Compassion, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.

Peterson, Philip L. Intermediate Quantities [i.e. quantifiers]: Logic, linguistics, and Aristotelian Semantics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Pirozzi, Richard C. Critical Reading, Critical Thinking: a Contemporary Issues Approach. New York: Longman, 2000.

Rafalko, Robert J. Logic for an Overcast Tuesday. Belmont, Wadsworth, 1990.

Regal, Philip J. The Anatomy of Judgment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Reichenbach, Bruce R. Introduction to Critical Thinking. 1st ed. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Rescher, Nicholas. Plausible Reasoning. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1976.

Rescher, Nicholas. Rationality: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Nature of the Rationale of Reason. New York: Clarendon/Oxford, 1988.

Resnick, Lauren B. Education and Learning to Think. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987.

Re-thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Rosenthal, Peggy. Words and Values. Oxford University Press, 1984.

Rosenwasser, Dovid. Writing Analytically. 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.

Runciman, Lex. Asking Questions: a Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Scheffler, I. Conditions of Knowledge, Chicago, Illinois, Scott Foresman, 1965.

Scheffler, I. In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education. New York:             Routledge, 1991.

Scheffler, I. Of Human Potential, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

Scheffler, I. Reason and Teaching, New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. First published in 1973 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Scheffler, I. The Language of Education, Springfield, Illinois, Charles C. Thomas, 1960.

Schwarze, Sharon. Thinking Socratically. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999.

Searle, John R. Foundations of Illocutionary Logic. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Searle, John R. Minds, Brains, and Science. Harvard University Press, 1984.

Siegel, Harvey. Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education. New York and London: Routledge, 1988.

Smyth, Mary M., and Peter E. Morris, and Philip Levy, and Andrew W. Ellis. Cognition in Action. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987.

Structure in Thought and Feeling. Methuen, 1985.

Thayer-Bacon, BarbaraJ. Transforming Critical Thinking: Thinking Constructively. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.

The Common Courage Reader, Essays for an Informed Democracy. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.

Thinking Space. Critical Geopgraphies Ser. London: Routledge, 2000.

This is Your Passbook for Logical Reasoning: Test Preparation Study Guide, Questions & Answers. Passbook Series General Aptitude and Abilities Ser. Syosset, NY: National Learning Corp., 2000.

Thurlo, David. Hands-On-Science, Math, and Technology: Integrated Activities That Promote Critical Thinking. Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 1999.

Toms, Eric. Relation and Consciousness. Scottish Academic Press, 1984.

Treffinger, Donald J. Creative Problem Solving: an Introduction. 3rd ed. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, Inc., 2000.

Waldron, Terence Patrick. Principles of Language and Mind. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

Walton, Douglas N. Arguer's Position. Greenwood Press, 1985.

Walton, Douglas. Logical Dialogue--Games and Fallacies. University Press of America, 1984.

Wang, Hao. Beyond Analytic Philosophy. MIT Press, 1986.

Warburton, Nigel. Thinking From A to Z. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, 2000.

Warnick, Barbara. Critical Thinking and Communication: The Use of Reason in Argument. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Wilson, Bryan R. ed. Rationality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Wilson, Fred. Dialectics, A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1977.

Wilson, Fred. Explanation, Causation, and Deduction. D. Reidel Publishing Company: Hingham, MA: Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.

Woods, John. Argument: Critical Thinking, Logic and the Fallacies. Revised and Expanded Edition. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2000.


Trade Books

Cowan, Sam. Handbook of Digital Logic...With Practical Applications. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985.

John-Steiner, Vera. Notebooks of the Mind. 1st ed. University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Ending of Time. 1st ed. Harper and Row, 1985.

Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking, How To Get The Best Out Of College. New York: Mentor (New American Library), 1981.


Collections, Anthologies, Proceedings

Agazzi, Evandro, ed. Modern Logic: A Survey. Dordrecht & Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981.

(Proceedings of the international conference on Modern Logic organized by the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia and the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science in Rome, September 1976.)

Blair, J. Anthony and Ralph H. Johnson, eds. Informal Logic, The First International Symposium. Inverness, CA: Edgepress, 1980.

(Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Informal Logic at the University of Windsor, June 1978.) Papers by Robert Binkley, Blair and Johnson, Howard Kahane, Alex Michalos, Peter Minkus, Thomas Tomko and Robert Ennis, Michael Scriven, Douglas Walton and John Woods.)

Cohen, L. Jonathan and Mary Hesse, eds. Application of Inductive Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

(Proceedings of a Conference at The Queen's College, Oxford, August 1978.)

Dewey, J., Democracy and Education, New York, The Free Press, Macmillan, 1916.

Duckworth, Eleanor. The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1987.

Hoaglund, John ed. Proceedings of Conference 85 on Critical Thinking, Christopher Newport College. Newport News, VA: Christopher Newport College Press.

Hoaglund, John. ed. Conference 86 on Critical Thinking, Christopher Newport College. Newport News, VA: Christopher Newport College Press, 1988.

Kerr, Donna H. "Critical Thinking and Teaching Excellence." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Improving University Teaching. Aachen, Germany, 93-102 (July).

Laughlin, Stanley K. and Daniel T. Hughes. "The Rational and the Reasonable: Dialectic Or Parallel Systems." Practical Reasoning in Human Affairs, Golden, James (ed.), Dordrecht Reidel 1986.

McPeck, J. E., Critical Thinking and Education, New York, St Martin's Press, 1981.

Perelman, Chaim. The New Rhetoric and the Humanities. Dordrecht/ Boston/London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1979.

Perkins, David N., and Jack Lochhead, and John C. Bishop, The Second International Conference. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987.

Perkins, David N. Justice, Law and Argument. Dordrecht/Boston/ London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980.

Justice, Law and Argument. Dordrecht/Boston/London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980.

Tuma, David T. and Frederick Reif, eds. Problem Solving and Education: Issues in Teaching and Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1980.

(Proceedings of the conference, "Problem Solving and Education: Issues in Teaching and Research" at Carnegie-Mellon University, October 1978.)

Wadia, Pheroze S. "Reasoning, Believing, and Willing or the Voluntarist Paradox." Rationality in Thought and Action. Tamny, Martin (ed.) 231-260, New York Greenwood Pr. 1986.

Wright, Ian and Carol La Bar. Critical Thinking and Social Studies. Canada: The History and Social Science Teacher, 1987.


Graduate Theses and Dissertations 1998-2000 (Published or Unpublished)

Alka, Aneja. "Critical Thinking, Gender, and Development." MA Thesis, Western Carolina University, 1999

Baker, Ginger Noell. "Improving Critical Thinking Skills Through Formal Instruction." MA Thesis, University of West Florida, 1999.

Clifford, Jennifer S. "An Empirical Investigation of the Two-Factor Model of Critical Thinking." MS Thesis, Psychology Dept., Villanova University, 1999.

Graff, Peter. "What is Critial Thinking and How Do We Teach It?: An InterDisciplinary Curriculum Model Involving the Media Professional." MS Research Report St. Cloud State University, 1999.

Scher, Deborah Marie. "Relations Between Stance and Critical Thinking in Seventh Graders' Responses to Narrative and expository Texts." Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1999.

Thompson, Amy. "The Internet and Critical Thinking in the First-Year Compostition Classroom." Diss. English department, South Dakota State University, 1999.

Vaske, Joann M. "Defining, Teaching, and Evaluating Critical Thinking Skills in Adult Education." Specialist in Education Thesis, Drake University, 1998.