Good Reasoning Matters!: A Constructive Approach to Critical Thinking - Softcover

Groarke, Leo A.; Tindale, Christopher W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195445759 ISBN 13: 9780195445756

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Canada, 2012

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Designed to help students develop the quality of their thinking and to respond effectively to often confusing and contradictory messages, Good Reasoning Matters! offers an indispensable guide to evaluating and constructing arguments. In addition to examining the most common features of faulty reasoning, the text introduces a variety of argument schemes and rhetorical techniques that will help students solve problems and construct sound arguments. Extensive exercises and examples taken from such sources as social media sites, newspapers, and topical news articles encourage students to consider a wide range of views and perspectives.

The fifth edition features a glossary, chapter summaries, extensive revised exercises, and a revamped Companion Website.

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Professor Leo A. Groarke is professor of philosophy and provost at the University of Windsor. His research interests include the history of ideas, social and political philosophy, informal logic, and argumentation theory. He has published numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in these and other areas.

Professor Christopher W. Tindale is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor. His research interests include argumentation theory, ethics, and ancient philosophy. He has published numerous book chapters and extensively in journals and is the author of Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (2007) and Rhetorical Argumentation (2004). He is co-editor of the journal Informal Logic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195445759
• ISBN 13: 9780195445756
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 463
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