The Logic of Real Arguments

Fisher, Alec

ISBN 10: 0521654815 / ISBN 13: 9780521654814

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Logic of Real Arguments
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521654815
• ISBN-13: 9780521654814
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Very Good

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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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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.