Contents -- List of Comics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pre-Tests -- Pre-test 1: What Kind of Thinker Are You? -- Pre-test 2: Demonstrating the Need for Logic -- Part 1: Theory -- Section 1: The Possibility of Freedom -- The Goal, Surely, Must Be Freedom -- How is Freedom Possible? -- Negative Freedom, or Self-Direection -- Positive Freedom, or Autonomy -- The Dynamics of Value -- Getting Control of Your Own Values -- Freedom Through the Impartial Examination of Values -- Section 2: Impartial Thinking -- Bias Neutralization is an Inter- (Not Intra-) Subjective Process -- Judging Quality: Estimating "Truth" Through Falsification -- Establishing "Truth" through a Falsification Process is Not Possible, but Estimating "truth" -- Truth Seeking in Ethics -- Practical Reasonining Is Inevitably a Two-Step Falsification Process -- Talking to the Relativist -- The Message -- Postscript: Freedom Needs Determinism -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Part II: Practice -- Section 1: Learning the Intricacles of Practical Reasoning -- 1. Knowing What to Look For: Reasons Versus Evidence -- 2. Pushing Toward Precision -- 3. Taking a Look at your own Values (and coming up wiht Good Thesis Statements) -- 4. Common "Informal" Faults or Fallacies -- 1. Begging the Question -- 2. Ad Hominem/Ad Feminam Attack -- 3. Appeal to Authority -- 4. Strawperson -- 5. Slippery Slope -- 6. False Dilemma -- 7. Distinction without a Difference -- 8. Post Hoc Fallacy -- 9. Analogies: Good and Faulty -- 10. Fallacy of the Golden Mean -- 5. What Kind of Arguments is it? -- 6. Seeing the Whole Argument: A Valid Deductive Argument is a Necessary Condition for Evaluating Reasons (Soundness) -- 7. Evaluating Reasons or Soundness (Local Sufficiency) -- 8. Evaluating the Local Sufficency of your own and your opposition's positions.

9. Evaluating the Global Sufficiency of your own position -- 10. Avoiding "Rotweiler Flips": Getting your counterexamples straight -- 11. Are you making a claim about a sufficient or a necessary condition? -- 12. Back to seeing the whole argument: Finding the hidden premise in forced-choice situations -- 13. Responding to incorrect counterexamples -- 14. Deducing from conditional or "all" claims: Valid and Invalid Moves -- 15. Overview -- Post-Test -- Post-Test 1: What Kind of Thinker Are You? -- Post-Test 2: Logic -- A Personal Good-bye -- Section 2: Thinking and Writing Your Way to Truth -- Interactive Learning in Your Imagination -- What a Good (Impartial) Argument Looks Like -- Detailed Analysis of the Five Essential Argument Constituents -- 1. A Clear Thesis Statement in Support of One Side of a Highly Contentious Issue -- 2. A Convincing Support for the Thesis Statement -- 3. Articulation of a Strong Opposition -- 4. A Convincing Responses to the Opposition -- 5. A Convincing Resolution or Conclusion to the Posed Problem -- Summary for Evaluating the Five Essential Argument Constituents -- Inveractive Reasoning -- Appendix I: Answers to Exercises -- Appendix II: Analyzing Arguments -- Appendix III: Examples of Good Arguments -- Appendix IV: What "Good" and "Poor" Thinkers Look Like -- Appendix V: Answers to Pre-tests and Post-tests -- Pre-test 1: What Kind of Thinker Are You Scoring -- Post-test 2: Logic Answers -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.