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  • Straw Man Arguments

    A Study in Fallacy Theory

    This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device.Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Argumentation

    Analysis and Evaluation

    This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Crucial concepts from the theory of argumentation are systematically discussed and explained with the help of examples from real-life discourse and texts. The basic principles are explained that are instrumental in the analysis and evaluation of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Everyone Can Write

    Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing

    by Peter Elbow ...
    With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy. This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Social Epistemology

    Essential Readings

    What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Informal Logical Fallacies

    A Brief Guide

    Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us -- whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought.Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Making Arguments: Reason in Context

    Making Arguments: Reason in Context offers a new approach to the teaching of argumentation and debate.Nearly all argumentation courses and textbooks tilt toward one of two extremes:* Critical thinking/informal logic, in which the "laws" of reasoning are universal and not affected by audience or context* Public speaking, in which adaptation to the audience and winning assent trumps logic and ... Read more

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  • Methods of Argumentation

    Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and business. The best way to learn it is to try it out on real instances of arguments found in everyday conversational exchanges and legal argumentation. The introductory chapter of this book gives a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Good Arguments

    Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking

    This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation

    Series series Critical Reasoning and Argumentation
    Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating the most common kinds of arguments, the book also ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Great Endarkenment

    Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization

    Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities of experts in different disciplines who do not understand one another. Because these problems ... Read more

    $34.19 USD