One-Sided Arguments by Douglas Walton
The book concedes the postmodernist premise that bias is quite normal in everyday conversational arguments, and that a finding of bias should not, by itself, constitute grounds for criticizing an argument as critically deficient or fallacious. But the book strongly disagrees with the postmodernist conclusion that no standard of rationality can be brought to bear to condemn narrowly interest-based or one-sided arguments as biased. It is argued that in some cases narrow, one-sided partisanship in an argument is justifiably a basis for negative criticism of the worth of the argument.
"Walton tends to write books that need to be written, and in many cases he leads the field by being the first to draw attention to a topic that has been inadequately treated or not appreciated for its importanceIn this book, he reads beyond the superficial assumption that all advocacy argumentation will be problematically biased to consider that such discourses are potentially reasonable and then discuss when this might be the case. There are also some very good case studies dispersed throughout."—Christopher Tindale, Trent University
Douglas Walton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of many works on informal logic and argumentation, including Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam, also published by SUNY Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791442678 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791442675 |
| Title | One-Sided Arguments |
| Author | Douglas Walton |
| Series | Suny Series In Logic And Language |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1999-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 295 |
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