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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511818455
      9780521652414
      9780521654814
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818455
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.509kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 234 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Logic, Philosophy
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    Book description

    This new and expanded edition of The Logic of Real Arguments explains a distinctive method for analysing and evaluating arguments. It discusses many examples, ranging from newspaper articles to extracts from classic texts, and from easy passages to much more difficult ones. It shows students how to use the question 'What argument or evidence would justify me in believing P?', and also how to deal with suppositional arguments beginning with the phrase 'Suppose that X were the case.' It aims to help students to think critically about the kind of sustained, theoretical arguments which they commonly encounter in the course of their studies, including arguments about the natural world, about society, about policy, and about philosophy. It will be valuable for students and their teachers in a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, law and the social sciences.

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    "As an introduction to logic which prepares students to use the discipline in future studies, Real Arguments has no serious competitors." Informal Logic

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Bibliography
    List of further reading
    Bibliography
    Austin, J. L. How To Do Things With Words, Oxford University Press, 1962
    Beardsley, Monroe C. Practical Logic, Prentice Hall, 1950, p. 558
    Blair, J. Anthony and Johnson, Ralph H. (eds.). Informal Logic: The First International Symposium, Edgepress, 1980
    Boulding, Kenneth. Foreword to Malthus's Population: The First Essay, University of Michigan Press, 1959
    Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of Modern Science 1300–1800, G. Bell & Sons, 1949, p. 32 and Chapter 3
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    Fogelin, Robert J. Understanding Arguments, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 96
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    Meek, Ronald L. (ed.). Marx and Engels on Malthus, Lawrence and Wishart, 1953, pp. 59, 63
    Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action, Harvard University Press, 1965, pp. 2, 3
    Popper, Sir Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (translated by the author with the assistance of Dr Julius Freed and Lan Freed), Hutchinson & Co., 1959, Appendix xi, pp. 442f
    Putnam, Hilary. ‘The Corroboration of Theories’ in Schlipp, Paul A. (ed.), The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Open Court Publishing Co., 1974, Vol. II, pp. 221–40, §4
    Quine, W. V. and Ullian, J. S.The Web of Belief, Random House, 1970, p. 62
    Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1967, p. 63
    Samuelson, Paul A. Economics: An Introductory Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1980
    Scriven, Michael. Reasoning, McGraw-Hill, 1976
    Strawson, P. F. Introduction to Logical Theory, Methuen, 1952
    Swinburne, Richard. Is There A God?, Oxford University Press, 1996
    Thomas, Stephen. Practical Reasoning in Natural Language, 2nd edn, Prentice Hall, 1981, pp. 156, 296–323
    Practical Reasoning in Natural Language, 3rd edn, Prentice Hall, 1986
    Toulmin, Stephen. The Uses of Argument, Cambridge University Press, 1958
    List of further reading
    Blair, J. Anthony and Johnson, Ralph H. (eds.). Informal Logic: The First International Symposium, Edgepress (1980) [An instructive collection of papers from the first international symposium on informal logic.]
    Fisher, Alec. Critical Thinking: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2001
    Fogelin, Robert J. Understanding Arguments, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1978) [A thoughtful text which also has an instructor's manual.]
    Govier, Trudy. A Practical Study of Argument, Wadsworth (1985) [A good and widely used text.]
    McPeck, John E. Critical Thinking and Education, Martin Robertson (1981) [Probably the most noteworthy attack on the ‘critical thinking movement’ so far.]
    Perelman, C. and Olbrechts-Tyteca, L. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, University of Notre Dame Press (1969) [A classic in the tradition of rhetoric.]
    Scriven, Michael. Reasoning, McGraw-Hill (1976) [A classic in this field.]
    Thomas, Stephen. Practical Reasoning in Natural Language, Prentice Hall, 2nd edn (1981), 3rd edn (1986) [A good text with a very carefully worked approach.]
    Toulmin, Stephen. The Uses of Argument, Cambridge University Press (1958) [An historical classic.]

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