A Practical Study of Argument - Softcover

Govier, Trudy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495603406 ISBN 13: 9780495603405

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2009

Synopsis

A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT gives you the tools you need to understand informal logic and formulate a good argument. By focusing on real world examples and including helpful study tools such as exercises with answers, a glossary of common fallacies, chapter summaries, and a book-specific website, A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT provides you with everything you need to master the material with ease.i

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Review

1. What Is an Argument? (And What Is Not?). 2. Pinning Down Argument Structure. 3. Looking at Language. 4. When Is an Argument a Good One? 5. Premises: What to Accept and Why. 6. Working on Relevance. 7. Deductive Arguments: Categorical Logic. 8. Deductive Arguments: Propositional Logic. 9. An Introduction to Inductive Arguments. 10. Causal Inductive Arguments. 11. Analogies: Reasoning from Case to Case. 12. Conductive Arguments and Counterconsiderations. Appendix A: A Summary of Fallacies. Appendix B: Selected Essays for Analysis. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

About the Author

Trudy Govier, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, is a philosopher, author, and speaker who is widely known for her dynamic style of speaking and writing and her passionate advocacy of reasoned responses to conflict. She has spoken and written extensively on reconciliation, violence and non-violence, and topics in informal logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495603406
• ISBN 13: 9780495603405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 417