Alec Fisher

The Logic of Real Arguments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new and expanded edition explains a distinctive method for analyzing and evaluating arguments. It features many examples, ranging from newspaper articles to extracts from classic texts, and from easy passages to much more difficult ones. It will enable students to think critically about sustained, theoretical arguments commonly encountered in the course of their studies, including arguments about the natural world, society, policy, and philosophy. First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-31341-4

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780521654814
• ISBN-10: 0521654815
• Artikelnr.: 22184961

Autorenporträt

Alec Fisher was Director of the Centre for Research in Critical Thinking at the University of East Anglia, until his retirement in 1999. He is the author of Critical Thinking: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2001), which has already been translated into several languages. He continues to lecture and conduct workshops on reasoning and critical thinking skills all over the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. A general method of argument analysis
3. A first example - from Thomas Malthus
4. Reasoning about nuclear deterrence
5. An example from John Stuart Mill
6. Arguments about God's existence
7. How do your mind and body interact?
8. Suppose for the sake of argument that ...
9. An example from Karl Marx
10. Evaluating scientific arguments: some initial examples
11. Philosophical assumptions
Appendix: Elementary formal logic
Exercises.