Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534551335 ISBN 13: 9780534551339

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2000

ATTACKING FAULTY REASONING is the most comprehensive, readable, and theoretically sound book on the common fallacies. It is designed to help one construct and evaluate arguments. The overriding purpose of the text is to help the students recognize when they construct or encounter a good or successful argument of a particular action or belief. This one skill is reinforced on every page of the text, from the first three chapters that focus on the criteria for a good argument, through the four major chapters on the fallacies or ways that arguments can go wrong. The emphasis is on resolving issues rather than pointing out flaws in arguments.

About the Author:

T. Edward Damer received his Ph.D. from Boston University and currently teaches at Emory and Henry College.