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For undergraduate courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, and Critical Writing, as well as introductory or advanced argumentation courses.
Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, this introduction shows students how to detect fallacies and how to examine, and construct cogent arguments. Accessible and reader friendly—yet thorough and rigorous—it shows how to integrate all logic skills into the critical decision-making process.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Critical Thinking in Everyday Life
Play Fair
Seating a Jury
Jury Research: Eliminating or Selecting Bias?
Impartial Critical Thinking
Adversarial Critical Thinking
Cooperative Critical Thinking
Exercises
Additional Reading
Online Resources
2 A Few Important Terms
Arguments
Statements
Exercise 2-1
Premises and Conclusions
Exercise 2-2
Deductive and Inductive Arguments
Exercise 2-3
Deduction, Validity, and Soundness
Induction, Strong Arguments, and Cogent Arguments
Exercises 2-4, 2-5
Review Questions
Online Resources
3 Ad Hominem Arguments
The Ad Hominem Fallacy
Nonfallacious Ad Hominem Arguments
Ad Hominem and Testimony
Distinguishing Argument from Testimony
Exercise 3-1
Tricky Types of Ad Hominem
Bias Ad Hominem
Inconsistency and Ad Hominem
Psychological Ad Hominem
Inverse Ad Hominem
Attacking Arguments
Exercises 3-2
Review Questions
Additional Reading
Internet Resources
4 The Second Deadly Fallacy: The Strawman Fallacy
Strawman
The Principle of Charity
The Strawman Fallacy
Special Strawman Varieties
Limits on Critical Thinking
Exercises 4-1 and 4-2
Additional Reading
5 What’s the Question?
Determine the Conclusion
What Is the Exact Conclusion?
Exercises 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4
Review Question
6 Relevant and Irrelevant Reasons
Premises Are Relevant or Irrelevant Relative to the Conclusion
Irrelevant Reason Fallacy
The Red Herring Fallacy
Exercises 6-1 and 6-2
Review Questions
Additional Reading
7 Analyzing Arguments
Argument Structure
Convergent Arguments
Linked Arguments
Subarguments
Exercises 7-1, 7-2 and 7-3
Assumptions: Their Use and Abuse
Legitimate Assumptions
Enthymemes
Illegitimate Assumptions
Exercise 7-4
Review Questions
Additional Reading
8 The Burden of Proof
Who Bears the Burden of Proof?
Appeal to Ignorance
The Burden of Proof in the Courtroom
Presumption of Innocence
When the Defendant Does Not Testify
Juries and the Burden of Proof
Unappealing Ignorance
Exercises 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, 8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 8-7
Review Questions
Additional Reading
9 Language and its Pitfalls
Defintions
Stipulative Definitions
Controversial Definitions
Deceptive Language
The Fallacy of Ambiguity
Amphiboly
Exercises 9-1, 9-2, and 9-3
Additional Reading
Internet Resources
10 Appeal to Authority
Authorities as Testifiers
Conditions for Legitimate Appeal to Authority
Popularity and Tradition
Exercise 10-1
Review Questions
Additional Reading
Cumulative Exercises One
(Chapters 1 through 10)
11 Arguments by Analogy
Figurative Analogy
Deductive Argument by Analogy
Exercise 11-1
The Fallacy of Faulty Analogy
Exercises 11-2 and 11-3
Analyzing a Deductive Argument by Analogy
Deductive Arguments by Analogy and Cooperative Critical Thinking
The Fallacy of Analogical Literalism
Caution! Watch for Analogies That Look Like Slippery Slopes!
Inductive Arguments by Analogy
Exercises 11-4, 11-5, 11-7, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9, and 11-10
Review Questions
12 Some Distinctive Arguments and Potential Pitfalls: Slippery Slope, Dilemma, and Golden Mean Arguments
Slippery Slope
Separating Slippery Slopes from Strawmen
The Slippery Slope Fallacy
Genuine Slippery Slopes
Exercises 12-1and 12-2
Dilemmas, False and True
Genuine Dilemmas
False Dilemmas
Dilemmas in Conditional Form
False Dilemma Combined with Strawman
Consider the Possibilities
Exercise 12-3
Golden Mean
The Golden Mean Fallacy
Constructing Golden Mean Fallacies
Exercise 12-4
Review Questsions
Additional Reading
Additional Reading
Internet Resources
13 Begging the Question
The Problem with Question-Begging Arguments
A New and Confusing Use of “Begs the Question”
Subtle Forms of Question Begging
Synonymous Begging the Question
Generalization Begging the Question
Circular Begging the Question
False Charges of Begging the Question
Self-Sealing Arguments
Complex Questions
Exercises 13-1 and 13-2
Review Questions
Additional Reading
Cumulative Exercises Two
(Chapters 1 through 13)
14 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Necessary Conditions
Distinguishing Necessary from Sufficient Conditions
Sufficient Conditions
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Ordinary Language
Ex Exercises 14-1, 14-2, and 14-3
Conditional Statements
Alternative Ways of Stating Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Both Necessary and Sufficient
Exe Exercises 14-4 and 14-5
Valid Inferences from Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Modus Ponens
Modus Tollens
Fallacies Based on Confusion between Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
The Fallacy of Denying the Antecedent
The Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent
Detecting Argument Forms
Exercises 14-6, 14-7, and 14-8
Review Questions
15 Scientific and Causal Reasoning
Distinguishing Causation from Correlation
Exercise 15-1
The Questionable Cause Fallacy
Exercise 15-2
The Method of Science
Randomized Studies and Prospective Studies
Making Predictions
When Predictions Go Wrong
Faulty “Scientific” Claims
Occam’s Razor
Confirmation Bias
Scientific Integrity, Scientific Cooperation, and Research Manipulation
Exercise 15-3
Review Questions
Additional Reading
Internet Resources
16 The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
Eyewitness Testimony
Potential Sources of Eyewitness Error
Judging the Honesty of a Witness
Exercise 16-1
The Whole Truth
Are the Premises True?
Digging for Truth
Consider the Source
Exercise 16-2
Review Questions
Additional Reading
Online Resources
Cumulative Exercises Three
Chapters 1 through 16)
17 Thinking Critically about Statistics
All Children Are Above Average
Empty Statistics
Finding the Appropriate Context
Caught Off Base
Statistical Apples and Oranges
Statistical Half-Truths
Sample Size and “Statistical Significance”
How to Make Your Study Yield the Results You Want
Exercises 17-1
Surveys
Exercise 17-2
Additional Reading
Online Resources
18 Symbolic Sentential Logic
Truth-Functional Definitions
Negation
Disjunction
Conjunction
Conditional
Material Implication
Exercise 18-1
Testing for Validity and Invalidity
Exercise 18-2
Punctuation
Exercise 18-3
The Truth-Table Method of Testing for Validity
ExExercise 18-4
The Short-Cut Method for Determining Validity or Invalidity
Exercises 18-5, 18-6, and 18-7
Review Questions
19 Arguments about Classes
Types of Categorical Propositions
Exercise 19-1
Relations among Categorical Propositions
Venn Diagrams
Diagramming Statements
Diagramming Arguments
Exercise 19-2
Translating Ordinary-Language Statements into Standard-Form Categorical Propositions
Exercise 19-3
Reducing the Number of Terms
Exercises 19-4 and 19-5
Review Questions
Consider Your Verdict
Comprehensive Critical Thinking in the Jury Room
Case One: Commonwealth v. Moyer
Judge Carroll’s Summation and Charge to the Jury
Case Two: State v. Ransom
Judge Schwebel’s Summation and Charge to the Jury
Key Terms
Answers to Selected Exercises
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.2.2012 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 18 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-15998-2 / 0205159982 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-15998-7 / 9780205159987 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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