思辨能力的高下将决定一个人学业的优劣、事业的成败乃至一个民族的兴衰。而理查德·保罗、琳达·埃尔德所著的《像苏格拉底一样提问(英文版)/思想者指南系列丛书》出版，必将有利于促进教育改革，提高人才培养质量，提升大众思辨能力，为创新型国家建设和社会文明进步作出深远的贡献。

理查德·保罗、琳达·埃尔德所著的《像苏格拉底一样提问(英文版)/思想者指南系列丛书》是“思想者指南系列丛书”当中的一本，属于该系列下的“大众篇”，供广大读者使用。本书包括五个部分以及三个附录，通过讲解以及举例，来帮助读者了解并学习苏格拉底提问的艺术。

Letter to the reader

Introduction

Part One:A taxonomy of socratic questions based in critical thinking concepts

 Questions that Target the Parts of Thinking

 Questions that Target the Quality of Reasoning

 The Art of Socratic Questioning Checklist

 Four Directions in Which to Pursue Thought

 Three Kinds of Questions

 Asking One-System, No-System, and Conflicting-System Questions

 Questioning Questions: Identifying Prior Questions

 Asking Complex Interdisciplinary Questions

Part Two: Socratic Questioning Transcripts

 Transcript One: Exploring the Mind and How It Works (Elementary School)

 Transcript Two: Helping Students Organize Their Thoughts for Writing (Middle School)

 Transcript Three: Helping Students Think Deeply About Basic Ideas (High School)

 Transcript Four: Helping Students Think Seriously About Complex Social Issues (High School)

Part Three: The Mechanics of Socratic Questioning

 Three Kinds of Socratic Discussion

 Wondering Aloud About Truth and Meaning

 Sources of Student Befief

 General Guidelines for Socratic Questioning

 Part Four: The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking, and Learning

Part Four: The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking, and Learning

 The Teacher as Questioner

 Understanding Content as Interrelated Systems with Real-Life Connections.

 Thinking Is Driven by Questions

Part Five: Socrates,the socratic method,and critical thinking

 A Definition of Socratic Questioning

 On Socrates

 The Intellectual Virtues as Displayed by Socrates

 The Systematic Nature of the Socratic Method

 Placing the Dialectic Process at the Heart of Teaching

 The Historical Contribution of Socrates

 The Concept of Critical Thinking

 What Critical Thinking Brings to Socratic Questioning

Appendices

 Appendix A: Patterns in Teaching that Incorporate Socratic Dialogue

 Appendix B: Analyzed Transcript of a Socratic Dialogue from Plato's Euthyphrc

 Appendix C: More On Socrates