Informal Logic

Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113947281X

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Informal Logic by Douglas Walton Pdf

Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical responses. This edition takes into account many developments in the field of argumentation study that have occurred since 1989, many created by the author. Drawing on these developments, Walton includes and analyzes 36 new topical examples and also brings in work on argumentation schemes. Ideally suited for use in courses in informal logic and introduction to philosophy, this book will also be valuable to students of pragmatics, rhetoric, and speech communication.

Author : Robert J. Fogelin,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0155926721

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Understanding Arguments by Robert J. Fogelin,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Pdf

Author : Douglas Walton,Alan Brinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351930703

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Historical Foundations of Informal Logic by Douglas Walton,Alan Brinton Pdf

In just the last twenty years there has arisen a strong interest, especially among teachers of logic at the universities, in teaching techniques of applied logical reasoning and critical thinking. Many universities are now stressing these skills at an introductory level, and to meet the need, informal logic has begun to form and grow as a discipline in its own right. Like all subjects, it helps us to understand it if we can situate it in a context of historical development. This collection of essays provides the readings required to understand the development of a subject whose historical origins have been so far little studied. Many of the chapters are written by scholars in philosophy and speech communication who are themselves leading contributors to the subject, and their contemporary views throw light on how these earlier writers have influenced their thinking. This dimension gives an added interest to the essays, and indicates the way informal logic is currently evolving and seeking out its ancient historical origins.

Author : Douglas N. Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521379253

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Informal Logic by Douglas N. Walton Pdf

This is an introductory guide to the basic principles of constructing good arguments and criticizing bad ones. It is nontechnical in its approach, and is based on 150 key examples, each discussed and evaluated in clear, illustrative detail. The author explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound argument strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical questions for responding. Among the many subjects covered are: techniques of posing, replying to, and criticizing questions, forms of valid argument, relevance, appeals to emotion, personal attack, uses and abuses of expert opinion, problems in deploying statistics, loaded terms, equivocation, and arguments from analogy.

Author : Ralph H. Johnson
Publisher : University of Windsor
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780920233719

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The Rise of Informal Logic by Ralph H. Johnson Pdf

We are pleased to release this digital edition of Ralph Johnson’s The Rise of Informal Logic as Volume 2 in the series Windsor Studies in Argumentation. This edition is a reprint of the previous Vale Press edition with some minor corrections. We have decided to make this the second volume in the series because it is such a compelling account of the formation of informal logic as a discipline, written by one of the founders of the field. The book includes essential chapters on the history and development of informal logic. Other chapters are key reflections on the theoretical issues raised by the attempt to understand informal argument. Many of the papers were previously published in important journals. A number of them were co-authored with J. Anthony Blair. Three of them have appeared only in the present book.

Author : Jacob E. Van Vleet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761872542

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Informal Logical Fallacies by Jacob E. Van Vleet Pdf

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us—whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought. Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise introduction to more than fifty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. This revised edition includes updated examples, exercises, and a new chapter on non-Western logical fallacies. With helpful definitions and relevant explanations, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric. This is an essential guide to philosophical reflection and clear thinking.

Author : J. Anthony Blair,Ralph Henry Johnson
Publisher : Inverness, Calif. : Edgepress
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fallacies (Logic)
ISBN : UCAL:B4395300

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Informal Logic by J. Anthony Blair,Ralph Henry Johnson Pdf

Author : John Woods
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319726588

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Truth in Fiction by John Woods Pdf

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows? It is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they areunambiguously true and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn’t in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it? Two answers are developed. According to the no-contradiction thesis, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the no-bother thesis, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction. The naturalized logic of Truth in Fiction jettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.

Author : D.S. Levi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401718509

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In Defense of Informal Logic by D.S. Levi Pdf

My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a work by Sextus Empiricus, and call my collection "Against the Logicians." Although the essays address a variety of problems that interest me, the thread that runs through them is a scepticism about how logicians see things. So, the title appealed to me. However, I had second thoughts and chose instead a title of one of my own essays, "In Defense of Informal Logic", which emphasizes my support for other approaches. Although my criticisms of logical theory are designed to cut deeply, I do not want to be unresponsive to the needs that it is supposed to satisfy. However, my position that we have adequate resources for critically analyzing a particular argument and 00 not need a theory of argumentation, will not completely satisfy those who think that there is a need for it. So, I want them to know that I am taking their concerns seriously.

Author : James B. Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139442430

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Acceptable Premises by James B. Freeman Pdf

When, if ever, is one justified in accepting the premises of an argument? What is the proper criterion of premise acceptability? Can the criterion be theoretically or philosophically justified? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive theory of premise acceptability and it answers the questions above from an epistemological approach that the author calls common sense foundationalism. It will be eagerly sought out not just by specialists in informal logic, critical thinking, and argumentation theory but also by a broader range of philosophers and those teaching rhetoric.

Author : R.C. Pinto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401707831

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Argument, Inference and Dialectic by R.C. Pinto Pdf

This volume contains 12 papers addressed to researchers and advanced students in informal logic and related fields, such as argumentation, formal logic, and communications. Among the issues discussed are attempts to rethink the nature of argument and of inference, the role of dialectical context, and the standards for evaluating inferences, and to shed light on the interfaces between informal logic and argumentation theory, rhetoric, formal logic and cognitive psychology.

Author : David Hitchcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319535623

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On Reasoning and Argument by David Hitchcock Pdf

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation. Among other things, the author:• develops an account of “material consequence” that permits evaluation of inferences without problematic postulation of unstated premises.• updates his recursive definition of argument that accommodates chaining and embedding of arguments and allows any type of illocutionary act to be a conclusion. • advances a general theory of relevance.• provides comprehensive frameworks for evaluating inferences in reasoning by analogy, means-end reasoning, and appeals to considerations or criteria.• argues that none of the forms of arguing ad hominem is a fallacy.• describes proven methods of teaching critical thinking effectively.

Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770483804

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Arguing with People by Michael Gilbert Pdf

Arguing with People brings developments from the field of Argumentation Theory to bear on critical thinking in a clear and accessible way. This book expands the critical thinking toolkit, and shows how those tools can be applied in the hurly-burly of everyday arguing. Gilbert emphasizes the importance of understanding real arguments, understanding just who you are arguing with, and knowing how to use that information for successful argumentation. Interesting examples and partner exercises are provided to demonstrate tangible ways in which the book’s lessons can be applied.

Author : CHHANDA CHAKRABORTI
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120332482

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LOGIC by CHHANDA CHAKRABORTI Pdf

The Second Edition of this text continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to Logic, a subject that is increasingly becoming popular among students. What distinguishes the text is its graded step-by-step approach to the subject, with informal logic forming the basis and Symbolic logic and Inductive logic forming the more advanced steps. The book also uses a hands-on approach to teaching of logic to induce self-learning, as shown in sections such as on how to create a truth table or a truth tree, on providing strategic tips for formal derivations, and on how to approach symbolization in predicate logic. The Appendices, including those on Indian logic and the nature of inference in Indian logic, are designed to create greater awareness about the extent and depth of the field among students. WHAT’S NEW TO THIS EDITION  A new Appendix on Basic Set Theory. It covers all the fundamental concepts, principles and operations in Basic Set Theory.  Some sections in Chapter 3 on Fallacies have been modified.  Corrections/Modifications done wherever required. KEY FEATURES  In-depth and extensive coverage of Predicate logic.  Covers both Informal and Formal logic.  Each section has many worked-out examples and exercises.  Worked-out examples given in a step-by-step manner for easy compre-hension.  Keywords at the end of each chapter. Intended primarily as a text for students of Philosophy, the book would also be useful to students of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering where Logic is offered as part of their course. Read More

Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521823196

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Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation by Douglas Walton Pdf

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 analyze and 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.