Book Description
Now in its seventh edition, UNDERSTANDING ARGUMENTS has proven itself as an exceptional guide to understanding and constructing arguments in the context of a student's academic success and subsequent professional career. Its tried and true strengths include multiple approaches to the analysis of arguments, providing a variety of important tools; a thorough grounding on the uses of language in everyday discourse; and chapters in the latter half of the book that apply abstract concepts to concrete legal, moral, and scientific issues.
About the Author
Robert J. Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic: 7e FROM THE PUBLISHER
Now in its seventh edition, Understanding Arguments has proven itself as an exceptional guide to understanding and constructing arguments in the context of a student's academic success and subsequent professional career. Its tried and true strengths include multiple approaches to the analysis of arguments, providing a variety of important tools; a thorough grounding on the uses of language in everyday discourse; and chapters in the latter half of the book that apply abstract concepts to concrete legal, moral, and scientific issues.
SYNOPSIS
Informal logic concentrates on the function of language in argument. In this edition, Fogelin and Sinnott-Armstrong (both of Dartmouth College) use more systematic ways to describe rhetorical devices and evaluative language, and the improper and proper use of devices such as metaphors and irony. Their text starts by analyzing argument, including close analysis, rhetoric, basic structures, and categorical and quantification logic, inductive reasoning, and fallacies of clarity. They follow with areas of argumentation such as legal, moral, scientific, philosophical, and religious reasoning. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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