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Books on Critical Thinking

  • Here are a few important books on language, critical thinking and philosophy.
  • We keep adding new ones.

Critical Thinking​

  • 🇩🇪 Otto Kruse (2017): Kritisches Denken und Argumentieren. Eine Einführung für Studierende. utb Verlag Konstanz.
  • 🇩🇪 Rainer Bromme: Kritisches Denken lehren und lernen (Beltz, 2019)
  • 🇩🇪 Georg Meggle (2005): Kritisches Denken: Von der Philosophie zur Praxis (Mentis, 2005)
  • 🇬🇧 John Dewey (1910), How We Think
  • 🇬🇧 M. Neil Browne & Stuart M. Keeley: Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Pearson)
    • A proven, frequently reissued standard work that shows step by step how to examine arguments.
  • 🇫🇷 Elena Pasquinelli et Gérald Bronner: Eduquer à l'esprit critique
    • Theoretical foundations and practical guidance for teaching and training.
    • A work published by the French Ministry of National Education.

Cognitive Errors, Fallacies and Other Pitfalls​

Here are a few very well-known books that illuminate sub-areas of critical thinking, but that don't really teach critical thinking.

  • 🇩🇪 Daniel Kahnemann, Amos Tversky (2011): Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken. Siedler, München 2012
    • This masterpiece by Kahneman and Tversky gives us insights into psychological research on human thinking and our decision-making. Wonderfully written, but not a book for learning critical thinking.
  • 🇩🇪 Rolf Dobelli (2011): Die Kunst des klaren Denkens
    • This is actually a collection of cognitive errors and biases with the author's notes, anecdotes and explanations.
  • 🇫🇷 Albert Moukheiber (2019): Votre cerveau vous joue des tours (Allary Éditions)
    • The neuroscientist explains in accessible terms how our brain deceives us with cognitive biases.

Science and Skepticism​

Philosophy of Language​

Language and Society​