A Practical Study of Argument - Softcover

Govier, Trudy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534519768 ISBN 13: 9780534519766

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2000

Synopsis

THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT provides students with a practical understanding of argument with enriched examples while maintaining philosophical soundness. The fifth edition of this widely acclaimed text continues to provide an integration of formal and informal logic, and fallacies and arguments in a clearly presented and theoretically sensible fashion.

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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 Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534519768
• ISBN 13: 9780534519766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 488