Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life (MindTap Course List)

Boardman, Frank; Cavender, Nancy; Kahane, Howard

ISBN 10: 1305956028 / ISBN 13: 9781305956025

Published by Cengage Learning, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life (MindTap Course List)
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1305956028
• ISBN 13: 9781305956025
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: THE USE OF REASON IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 13th Edition, introduces you to sound reasoning using current, relevant, and stimulating examples in a witty and invigorating writing style. Combining examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and our nation's political dialogue, this classic text brings the concepts to life and puts critical-thinking skills into a context that you will retain and use throughout your life.

About the Authors

Frank Boardman is a visiting assistant professor at Dickinson College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016.

Nancy M. Cavender is Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin.

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.