Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, International Edition - Softcover
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Aims to challenge students to think for themselves by providing coverage of some common fallacies used in advertising, the mass media, textbooks, by public officials and in everyday conversation. This book should be of interest to students of critical thinking and informal logic courses.
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Howard Kahane received a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch college in New York and is considered one of the founders of the critical-thinking movement, an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues. Nancy M. Cavender is Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin.
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1. Good and Bad Reasoning. 2. More on Deduction and Induction. 3. Fallacious Reasoning--1. 4. Fallacious Reasoning--2. 5. Fallacious Reasoning--3. 6. Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot. 7. Language. 8. Evaluating Extended Arguments. 9. Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays. 10. Advertising: Selling the Product. 11. Managing the News. 12. Textbooks: Managing World Views. Appendix: More on Cogent Reasoning. Answers to Starred Exercise Items. Bibliography. Annotated List of Periodicals. Glossary. Index.
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