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The Logic of Real Arguments » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of The Logic of Real Arguments by Alec Fisher

Authors: Alec Fisher, Fisher Alec
ISBN-13: 9780521654814, ISBN-10: 0521654815
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Alec Fisher

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.

Book Synopsis

This new and expanded edition of The Logic of Real Arguments explains a distinctive method for analysing and evaluating arguments.

1	Introduction	1
2	A general method of argument analysis	15
3	A first example - from Thomas Malthus	29
4	Reasoning about nuclear deterrence	48
5	An example from John Stuart Mill	70
6	Arguments about God's existence	82
7	How do your mind and body interact?	99
8	Suppose for the sake of argument that ...	115
9	An example from Karl Marx	132
10	Evaluating 'scientific' arguments. Some initial examples	143
11	Philosophical assumptions	160
App	Elementary formal logic	172