An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi

From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.

Ali Almossawi graduated from MIT with a master's degree in engineering systems and Carnegie Mellon University with a master's degree in software engineering. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and kid, where he works for Mozilla as a data visualization designer while continuing to cooperate with his colleagues from the MIT Media Lab. Ali's work has featured in a variety of magazines, including Wired.

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ISBN 13	9781615192250
ISBN 10	1615192255
Title	An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Author	Ali Almossawi
Series	Bad Arguments
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Experiment
Year published	2014-09-23
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.