Attacking Faulty Reasoning - Softcover

Damer, T. Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133049982 ISBN 13: 9781133049982

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2012

Synopsis

Increasingly, college courses and programs require a critical thinking component and include assignments meant to measure your critical thinking skills. ATTACKING FAULTY REASONING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FALLACY-FREE ARGUMENTS, SEVENTH EDITION, can help you brush up on these skills and learn how to develop the logical, persuasive arguments you need now and throughout your career. This useful handbook addresses more than 60 common fallacies of logic with the help of over 200 memorable examples. It provides explanations and tips for "attacking" fallacious thinking, and is an ideal resource when writing papers, essays, or arguments.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

"A wonderfully written, extremely clear discussion of argumentation and fallacies chock full of extremely useful examples."

"Probably the best book on the market with respect to informal fallacy recognition."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1133049982
• ISBN 13: 9781133049982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256