Leo A. Groarke and Christopher W. Tindale
1. Making Room for an Argument
Why Make Room for an Argument?
Defining Argument
Arguers and Systems of Belief
Audiences
Opponents and Proponents
2. Bias: Reading Between the Lines
Bias
Detecting Illegitimate Biases
Difficult Cases
3.
Arguments, Weak and Strong
Burden of Proof
Strong Arguments
Logical Consequence: Deductive and Inductive Validity
Contextual Relevance
Schemes and Counter-Schemes
4. Dressing Arguments
Simple and Extended Arguments
Inference Indicators: Distinguishing
Arguments and Non-Arguments
Arguments without Indicator Words
Arguments and Explanations
Argument Narratives
5. Argument Diagrams
Argument Diagrams: Simple Arguments
Diagramming Extended Arguments
Linked and Convergent Premises
Supplemented
Diagram
Diagrammng Your Own Arguments
6. Hidden Argument Components
Speech Acts and the Principles of Communication
Hidden Conclusions
Hidden Premises
Non-Verbal Elements in Argument: Flags and Demonstrations
Symbols and Metaphors
A Note on Argument
Construction
7. Definitions: Saying What You Mean
Using Words Precisely
Vagueness and Ambiguity
Formulating Definitions
Rules for Good Definitions
Expressing Your Intended Meaning
8. Weighing Evidence
Acceptable, Unacceptable, or
Questionable?
Conditions of Acceptability
Conditions of Unacceptability
Internal Relevance
Sufficiency
Applying the Criteria
9. Looking for the Facts
Generalizations
Polling
General Causal Reasoning
10. More Empirical Schemes and the Reasons of
Science
Particular Causal Reasoning
Arguments from Ignorance
Scientific Reasoning
11. Schemes of Value
Slippery-Slope Arguments
Arguments from Analogy
Appeals to Precedent
Two-Wrongs Reasoning
12. Ethotic Schemes
Pro Homine
Ad Populum
Arguments
Arguments from Authority
Ad Hominem
Arguments Against Authority
Appeal to Eyewitness Testimony
Guilt (and Honour) by Association
Other Cases
13. Essaying an Argument
The Good Evaluative Critique
The Good Argumentative Essay
A Student's
Paper
Conclusion
Appendix A: Syllogisms: Classifying Arguments
Categorical Statements
Immediate Inferences
Categorical Syllogisms
Venn Diagrams
Appendix B: Propositional Logic I
Simple and Complex Propositions
Disjunctions and
Conditionals
Translation
Propositional Schemes and Proofs
Appendix C: Propositional Logic II
Conditional Proofs
Reductio ad Absurdum
Dilemmas
De Morgan's Laws
Summary: Rules of Inference
Instructor's Manual
For each chapter:
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Overview
- 5-10 questions for class discussion
- 5-10 additional readings and online sources
- 5-10 additional exercises with links to online articles
- Answers to exercises in the book
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Alternative sample answers to essays in the book
PowerPoint Slides
For each chapter:
- 20-25 slides
Test Bank
For each chapter:
- 15-20 multiple-choice questions
- 15-20 true-or-false questions
- 5-10 short answer questions
- Answers with page numbers
Clicker questions (NEW!)
For each chapter:
- 10-15 multiple-choice questions
Student Study Guide
For each chapter:
- 2-3 exercises with 15-25 multiple-choice questions per exercise
- 1 self-grading quiz with 10-15 questions
- 1 main review question
- Answers
to exercises in the book
E-Book (ISBN 9780199000470)
Leo A. Groarke is the president and vice-chancellor of Trent University. His research interests include the history of ideas, social and political philosophy, informal logic, and argumentation theory. He has published numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in these and other areas.
Christopher W. Tindale is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor. His research interests include argumentation theory, ethics, and ancient philosophy. He has published numerous book chapters and extensively in journals and is the author of Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
(2007) and Rhetorical Argumentation (2004). He is co-editor of the journal Informal Logic.
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