M. Neil Browne
Author of Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
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- Neil Browne is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Economics and Law and Senior Scholar at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In addition to teaching courses in Critical Thinking and Great Ideas, he manages the admissions, mentoring, and programming needs of a learning community of 40 students whose interdisciplinary curriculum and research is anchored in critical thinking and ethical reasoning. He is fortunate to have won numerous national, state and local teaching awards. His published research articles range broadly from the role of markets in distorting values to rhetoric in the social sciences, the role of metaphors in shaping disciplinary perspectives, the implications of cross-cultural differences in attitudes toward individualism, pay equity, cognitive biases and the pretentions of expertise, the inappropriateness of the customer metaphor for students, and the conflict between students evaluations and the encouragement of an optimal learning environment. Among his more than 50 books and editions in developmental education, economics, business law, business ethics, and cognitive skills he is most proud of Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (10th ed.).
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Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical… by M. Neil Browne
Asking the Right Questions
When I was asked to add a critical thinking module to a recent creative thinking session I turned to Asking the Right Questions by M. Neil Browne and Stuart Keeley for one reason – they emphasize that the right mental approach is to be curious first, “critical” second.
The approach the book takes to critical thinking (the full title is Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking) is to analyze writing, including your own, with a series of questions. The questions lead one first to understand the issues and conclusions of the author, and then to be curious about how the author’s reasons lead to the conclusion.
In doing so, they run through most of the ways reasons don’t necessarily add up.
For fun, do this: read the book then pick up a speech by a politician. Uh-huh.… (more)
When I was asked to add a critical thinking module to a recent creative thinking session I turned to Asking the Right Questions by M. Neil Browne and Stuart Keeley for one reason – they emphasize that the right mental approach is to be curious first, “critical” second.
The approach the book takes to critical thinking (the full title is Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking) is to analyze writing, including your own, with a series of questions. The questions lead one first to understand the issues and conclusions of the author, and then to be curious about how the author’s reasons lead to the conclusion.
In doing so, they run through most of the ways reasons don’t necessarily add up.
For fun, do this: read the book then pick up a speech by a politician. Uh-huh.… (more)
An excellent guide to not only the analysis of other people's arguments, but also in responsibly creating good arguments to be presented to others. Unfortunately, the book was slightly more by the authors' politically correct agenda. In a book that purports to teach objectivity, the social agenda of the writers' should not be so readily apparent. They're critical thinking becomes blurred times when it involves what is apparently some of their pet social concerns. Other than this minor concern, it's an excellent book and I highly recommend it.… (more)
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