Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fallacies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained relevant since Aristotle, Christopher Tindale investigates central cases of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and how this has occurred. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and brief descriptions of fallacies, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize the dialectical and rhetorical contexts in which fallacies arise. This volume analyzes major fallacies through accessible, everyday examples. Critical questions are developed for each fallacy to help the student identify them and provide considered evaluations.
- Real, everyday examples are used to introduce and discuss major fallacies
- Critical questions are developed for each fallacy to help the reader identify and evaluate them
- The treatments of the fallacies take account of the most recent theoretical literature
Product details
April 2007Paperback
9780521603065
238 pages
228 × 153 × 15 mm
0.397kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to the study of fallaciousness
- 2. Fallacies of diversion
- 3. Fallacies of structure
- 4. Problems with language
- 5. Ad Hominem arguments
- 6. Other 'Ad' arguments
- 7. The Ad Verecundiam and the misuse of experts
- 8. Sampling
- 9. Correlation and cause
- 10. Analogical reasoning.
