Merrilee Salmon is Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
"It covers the range of tools that you should want to give to a
critical thinker. It also presents wonderful, real-life examples of
both the good and the bad in human thought, giving the student a
chance to reflect and respond."
"Merrilee Salmon's text wonderfully demonstrates the fact that both
formal deductive logic and informal reasoning (critical thinking)
are linked." "the text accomplishes what other logic books always
force the instructor to develop on their own: a way to render
philosophy and logic relevant to any student in any discipline
while simultaneously demonstrating the importance of using language
prudently."
"This text is exactly as advertised: an excellent introduction to
both formal, sentential logic and informal, inductive reasoning
("critical thinking"). Of the numerous introductory "reasoning"
texts that I have surveyed this one remains, to date, the only one
currently on the market which extensively covers both deductive and
inductive reasoning while remaining highly readable (i.e., does not
read like a "math text") - no small feat."
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