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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511818455
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818455
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
Cornman, James W., Lehrer, Keith and Pappas, George S. Philosophical Problems and Argument: An Introduction, 3rd edn, Collier Macmillan, 1982, pp. 85f
Crombie, A. C.Augustine to Galileo, Falcon Educational Books (first published 1952), Heinemann, 1980, Vol. II, pp. 221–38
Dawkins, Richard. Review of Swinburne's Is There a God?, in The Sunday Times, 4 February 1996
Everitt, Nicholas and Fisher, Alec. Modern Epistemology: A New Introduction, McGraw-Hill, 1995
Fogelin, Robert J. Understanding Arguments, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 96
Hacker, P. M. S. Insight and Illusion, Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 304
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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