A Practical Study of the Argument

A classic in the field, A PRACTICAL STUDY OF THE ARGUMENT is widely recognized for its solid treatment of such basic topics as the nature of argument, argument structure, premise acceptability, propositional logic, categorical logic, analogy, and fallacies. Integrated and carefully organized, the Third Edition continues to give students a practical understanding of different types of arguments by concentrating on good arguments as they occur in natural language.

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.