Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (Critical Reasoning and Argumentation)

238 Pages·2007·0.7 MB·English

by  Christopher W. Tindale

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FALLACIES AND ARGUMENT APPRAISAL
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the
nature,identification,andcausesoffallaciousreasoning,alongwith
key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on falla-
cies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained rele-
vantsinceAristotle,ChristopherW.Tindaleinvestigatescentralcases
of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and
why. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and
brief descriptions, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize
thedialecticalandrhetoricalcontextsinwhichfallaciesarise.
Thisvolumeanalyzesmajorfallaciesthroughaccessible,everyday
examples.Criticalquestionsaredevelopedforeachfallacytohelpthe
studentidentifythemandprovideconsideredevaluations.
Christopher W. Tindale is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Windsor in Canada. He is coeditor of the journal Informal Logic:
ReasoningandArgumentationinTheoryandPractice,authorofActs
ofArguing:ARhetoricalModelofArgumentandRhetoricalArgumen-
tation,andcoauthorofGoodReasoningMatters,thirdedition.
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CRITICAL REASONING AND ARGUMENTATION
GeneralEditors
DouglasWalton,UniversityofWinnipeg
HansV.Hansen,UniversityofWindsor
Thisseriesisaimedatintroductorystudentsinthefieldofargumen-
tation, informal logic, and critical thinking. Informed by research in
linguistics,communication,artificialintelligence,andpragmatics,as
wellasphilosophy,booksinthisseriesareuptodateinmethodand
presentation,particularlyintheiremphasisondialogueandrhetoric,
whichcontrastswiththetraditional“goitalone”approach.Eachbook
isdesignedforuseinaone-semestercourseandincludesexercises.
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FALLACIES AND
ARGUMENT APPRAISAL
Christopher W. Tindale
University of Windsor
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