LOGICAL SELF-DEFENSE is ideal for U.S. courses in reasoning, critical thinking, and informal logic. It may also be used in "introduction to logic" courses with a strong emphasis on ordinary language arguments. The text provides step by step guidelines for constructing arguments and analyzing of others. The text offers a positive approach to argument analysis, viewing bad arguments as deviations from the patterns of good arguments. The use of fallacy theory for criticism of arguments is one of the hallmarks of the text. Boxes, numerous examples, exercises (some answered in the appendix), glossary, and clear writing style make the text especially appealing for a first course in logic.

Logical Self-Defense

Sports & Outdoors

Johnson, Ralph H.

Blair, J. Anthony

Individual Sports

Mcgraw-Hill College

Logical Self-Defense offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying and analyzing arguments.  It outlines a theory of good argument to use for purposes of evaluating and constructing arguments. It contains guidelines for constructing arguments and for preparing and writing essays or briefs.  Special methods for interpreting and assessing longer arguments are provided.  It gives guidelines to help filter out the more reliable information from newspapers and television news.

Logical self-defense

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory

Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters into this multidisciplinary matrix. This book offers its readers a unique comprehensive survey of the various theoretical contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation. It discusses the historical works that provide the background to the field and all major approaches and trends in contemporary research. Argument has been the subject of systematic inquiry for twenty-five hundred years. It has been graced with theories, such as formal logic or the legal theory of evidence, that have acquired a more or less settled provenance with regard to specific issues. But there has been nothing to date that qualifies as a unified general theory of argumentation, in all its richness and complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist must have access to materials and methods that lie beyond his or her "home" subject. It is precisely on this account that this volume is offered to all the constituent research communities and their students. Apart from the historical sections, each chapter provides an economical introduction to the problems and methods that characterize a given part of the contemporary research program. Because the chapters are self-contained, they can be consulted in the order of a reader's interests or research requirements. But there is value in reading the work in its entirety. Jointly authored by the very people whose research has done much to define the current state of argumentation theory and to point the way toward more general and unified future treatments, this book is an impressively authoritative contribution to the field.

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

Van Eemeren, Frans H.

Grootendorst, Rob

Plantin, Christian

Willard, Charles A.

Routledge

Manifest Rationality

This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic over the past 20 years. At the same time, it defines a core position in the theory of argument in which those issues can be further explored. The underlying concern that motivates this work is the health of practice of argumentation as an important cultural artifact. A further concern is for logic as a discipline. Argumentative and dialectical in nature, this book presupposes some awareness of the theory of argument in recent history, and some familiarity with the positions that have been advanced. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of logic, rhetoric, linguistics, speech communication, English composition, and psychology.

Manifest Rationality: A Pragmatic Theory of Argument

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Book by Johnson, Ralph H., Blair, J. Anthony, Hoaglund, John

The Rise of Informal Logic: Essays on Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Reasoning & Culture (Studies in Critical Thinking & Informal Logic : Vol 2)

Hoaglund, John

Vale Pr

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