Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Website -- Part One: Introducing Critical and Creative Thinking -- 1: Essential Critical Thinking Concepts -- What Is Critical Thinking? -- Habits of Mind -- Why Intellectual Habits and Character Matter -- Overcoming Obstacles to Thinking -- A Model for Critical Thinking -- How You Know What You Know -- Perception and Knowledge -- Being Wrong -- Why Errors Persist -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 1: Facts and Knowledge -- Applications -- References -- 2: Essential Creative Thinking Concepts -- What Is Creative Thinking? -- Seeking Alternatives and Possibilities -- Reversing Relationships -- Cross-fertilizing -- Shifting Attention -- Denying the Negative -- The Creative Habit -- Creative Confidence -- Creative Theft -- Creative Crime -- Creative Questions -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 2: Sustaining Curiosity -- Applications -- References -- Part Two: Practicing Critical and Creative Thinking -- 3: Becoming a Critical and Creative Thinker -- Becoming a Critical Thinker -- Intellectual Standards as Guidelines for Critical Thinking -- Language and Thought -- Reports, Inferences, and Judgments -- The Prevalence and Power of Metaphor -- Innovating through Analogy -- Becoming a Creative Thinker -- Developing the Creative Habit -- Focus -- Solo and Group Creativity -- Concepts as Cognitive Tools -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 3: Embodying Experience -- Applications -- References -- 4: Critical Thinking Strategies and Applications -- The Nature of Argument -- Claims, Evidence, and Assumptions -- Evidence: Claims and Warrants -- Inductive and Deductive Reasoning -- Sherlock Holmes as a Logical Thinker -- Syllogisms, Enthymemes, and Argument -- Argument and Authority -- Argument and Analogy -- Argument and Causality.

Causality, Coincidence, and Correlation -- Further Causal Consequences -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 4: Blending Art and Science -- Applications -- References -- 5: Creative Thinking Strategies and Applications -- Imagination First -- Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation -- The Limits of Imagination -- Capacities for Imaginative Thinking -- Why Ideas Are Important -- How to Get Ideas -- Creative Whacks -- Being Practical/What Iffing -- Combining Things -- Using Paradox -- Thinking the Unthinkable -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 5: Combining Connections -- Applications -- References -- Part Three: Applying Critical and Creative Thinking -- 6: Decision Thinking: Making Critical Decisions -- Making Decisions -- Affective Forecasting -- Achieving Insights that Affect Decisions -- Institutional Decisions -- Incentives and Decisions -- Decisiveness -- Making Tough Decisions -- Making Group Decisions -- Applications -- References -- Interchapter 6: Embracing Ambiguity -- Applications -- Reference -- 7: Ethical Thinking: Making Ethical Decisions -- Basic Ethical Concepts -- Ethics, Values, and Virtues -- Ethical Imagination -- Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics -- Technology and Ethics -- The Ethics of Information -- Ethical Decisions -- Ethical Provocations -- Applications -- References -- Index -- EULA.