Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation by Douglas Walton
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating the most common kinds of arguments, the book also explains how to evaluate each kind by critical questioning. Douglas Walton shows how arguments can be reasonable under the right dialogue conditions by using critical questions to evaluate them. The book teaches by example, both in the text itself and in exercises, but it is based on methods that have been developed through the author's thirty years of research in argumentation studies.Douglas Walton is a University of Winnipeg philosophy professor. He has earned substantial research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Isaak Walton Killiam Memorial Foundation. He is an internationally recognized academic and author of more than thirty publications in the areas of argumentation, logic, and artificial intelligence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521530200 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521530202 |
| Title | Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation |
| Author | Douglas Walton |
| Series | Critical Reasoning And Argumentation |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2005-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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