Douglas Walton's Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation provides the foundation for identifying, analyzing, and evaluating arguments. This study book presents the basic principles and concrete techniques for critically assessing arguments, especially suitable for beginners and students.
Description
This study book covers the basic tools for critical arguing and uses examples in dialogues to make arguments clear. Through controversial legal, political, and ethical case studies, the author teaches how each type of argument can be evaluated using critical questions. Douglas Walton bases his method on thirty years of research in argumentation studies and shows that arguments can be reasonable under the right dialogue conditions.
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A comprehensive reference work that systematically presents the basic tools for analyzing and evaluating common arguments.
Product specifications
- Author: Douglas Walton (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
- Series: Critical Reasoning and Argumentation
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Binding type: Trade paperback (US)
- Publication date: 2005-10-31
- Number of pages: 360
- ISBN: 9780521530200
- Theme: Philosophy
- BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / General