Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (Critical Reasoning and Argumentation) PDF
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P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 This page intentionally left blank P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 FALLACIES AND ARGUMENT APPRAISAL Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature,identification,andcausesoffallaciousreasoning,alongwith key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on falla- cies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained rele- vantsinceAristotle,ChristopherW.Tindaleinvestigatescentralcases of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and why. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and brief descriptions, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize thedialecticalandrhetoricalcontextsinwhichfallaciesarise. Thisvolumeanalyzesmajorfallaciesthroughaccessible,everyday examples.Criticalquestionsaredevelopedforeachfallacytohelpthe studentidentifythemandprovideconsideredevaluations. Christopher W. Tindale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is coeditor of the journal Informal Logic: ReasoningandArgumentationinTheoryandPractice,authorofActs ofArguing:ARhetoricalModelofArgumentandRhetoricalArgumen- tation,andcoauthorofGoodReasoningMatters,thirdedition. i P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 ii P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 CRITICAL REASONING AND ARGUMENTATION GeneralEditors DouglasWalton,UniversityofWinnipeg HansV.Hansen,UniversityofWindsor Thisseriesisaimedatintroductorystudentsinthefieldofargumen- tation, informal logic, and critical thinking. Informed by research in linguistics,communication,artificialintelligence,andpragmatics,as wellasphilosophy,booksinthisseriesareuptodateinmethodand presentation,particularlyintheiremphasisondialogueandrhetoric, whichcontrastswiththetraditional“goitalone”approach.Eachbook isdesignedforuseinaone-semestercourseandincludesexercises. iii P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 iv P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 FALLACIES AND ARGUMENT APPRAISAL Christopher W. Tindale University of Windsor v CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521842082 © Christopher W. Tindale 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-27787-0 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-27787-3 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-84208-2 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-84208-5 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-60306-5 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-60306-4 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 ForJonathan vii P1:JZP 0521842085pre CUNY567/Tindale 0521842085 November22,2006 16:29 viii
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