Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation (Critical Reasoning and Argumentation) - Hardcover

Walton, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521823196 ISBN 13: 9780521823197

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 explains how to evaluate each kind by critical questioning. Douglas Walton shows how arguments can be reasonable under the right dialogue conditions by using critical questions to evaluate them. The book teaches by example, both in the text itself and in exercises, but it is based on methods that have been developed through the author's thirty years of research in argumentation studies.

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Book Description

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521823196
• ISBN 13: 9780521823197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360