Good Reasoning Matters!: A Constructive Approach to Critical Thinking - Softcover

Groarke, Leo A.; Tindale, Christopher W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195419049 ISBN 13: 9780195419047

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Offering an innovative approach to critical thinking, Good Reasoning Matters! identifies the essential structure of good arguments in a variety of contexts and also provides guidelines to help students construct their own effective arguments. In addition to examining the most common features of faulty reasoning--slanting, bias, propaganda, vagueness, ambiguity, and a common failure to consider opposing points of view--the book introduces a variety of argument schemes and rhetorical techniques. This edition adds material on visual arguments and more exercises.

About this title

About the Author:

Leo Groarke is at Brantford Campus, Wilfrid Laurier University. Christopher Tindale is in the Department of Philosophy, Trent University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195419049
• ISBN 13: 9780195419047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 488