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  • ISBN-13: 9781305956025
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 13x157x230 mm, kaal: 612 g
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  • Kirjastus: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1305956028
  • ISBN-13: 9781305956025
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Long the choice of instructors who want to "keep students engaged," LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: THE USE OF REASON IN EVERYDAY LIFE, Thirteenth Edition, introduces students to sound reasoning using current, relevant, and stimulating examples in a witty and invigorating writing style. Combining examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and our nation's political dialogue, this classic text brings the concepts to life and puts critical-thinking skills into a context that students will retain and use throughout their lives.
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Good and Bad Reasoning
3(34)
1 Reasoning and Arguments
4(2)
2 Exposition and Argument
6(1)
3 Arguments vs. Explanations
6(1)
4 What Does "Winning an Argument" Mean?
7(1)
5 Cogent Reasoning
8(3)
6 Two Basic Kinds of Valid Arguments
11(2)
7 Some Wrong Ideas About Cogent Reasoning
13(2)
8 Background Beliefs
15(1)
9 Kinds of Background Beliefs
16(1)
10 Worldviews or Philosophies
17(2)
11 Insufficiently Grounded Beliefs
19(2)
12 Two Vital Kinds of Background Beliefs
21(1)
13 Science to the Rescue
22(15)
Summary of
Chapter 1
25(12)
Chapter 2 More on Deduction and Induction
37(20)
1 Deductive Validity
37(3)
2 Deductive Invalidity
40(1)
3 Conditional Statements
40(2)
4 Syllogisms
42(2)
5 Indirect Proofs
44(1)
6 Tautologies, Contradictions, and Contingent Statements
45(1)
7 Inductive Validity (Correctness) and Invalidity (Incorrectness)
45(4)
8 A Misconception About Deduction and Induction
49(1)
9 Reasoning Cogently Versus Being Right in Fact
50(7)
Summary of
Chapter 2
51(6)
Chapter 3 Fallacies: Questionable Premises
57(26)
1 Appeal to Authority
58(5)
2 Inconsistency
63(4)
3 Straw Man
67(1)
4 False Dilemma and the Either-Or Fallacy
68(1)
5 Begging the Question
69(2)
6 Questionable Premise--Questionable Statement
71(1)
7 Suppressed (Overlooked) Evidence
72(2)
8 Tokenism
74(9)
Summary of
Chapter 3
75(8)
Chapter 4 Fallacies: Invalid Inferences
83(22)
1 Ad Hominem Argument
83(1)
2 Guilt by Association
84(1)
3 Two Wrongs Make A Right
85(2)
4 Appeal to Tradition or Popularity
87(1)
5 Irrelevant Reason (Non Sequitur)
88(2)
6 Equivocation
90(1)
7 Appeal to Ignorance
91(2)
8 Appeal to Pity or Fear
93(1)
9 Composition and Division
94(1)
10 Slippery Slope
94(11)
Summary of
Chapter 4
96(9)
Chapter 5 Fallacies: Misusing Induction
105(32)
1 Hasty Conclusion
105(1)
2 Small Sample
106(2)
3 Unrepresentative Sample
108(1)
4 Questionable Cause
109(4)
5 Questionable Analogy
113(2)
6 Questionable Statistics
115(2)
7 Questionable Uses of Good Statistics
117(2)
8 Polls: An Important Special Case
119(3)
9 False Charge of Fallacy
122(15)
Summary of
Chapter 5
124(13)
Chapter 6 Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
137(32)
1 Loyalty, Provincialism, and The Herd Instinct
138(2)
2 Prejudice, Stereotypes, Scapegoats, and Partisan Mind-Sets
140(6)
3 Superstitious Beliefs
146(1)
4 Wishful Thinking and Self-Deception
147(2)
5 Rationalization and Procrastination
149(5)
6 Other Defense Mechanisms
154(2)
7 The Benefits of Self-Deception, Wishful Thinking, and Denial
156(3)
8 The Pull of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
159(2)
9 Lack of A Good Sense of Proportion
161(8)
Summary of
Chapter 6
164(5)
Chapter 7 Language
169(40)
1 Cognitive and Emotive Meanings
169(1)
2 Emotive Meanings and Persuasive Uses of Language
170(7)
3 Ambiguity and Vagueness
177(4)
4 Other Common Rhetorical Devices
181(5)
5 Language Manipulators
186(7)
6 Some Subtle Issues
193(4)
7 Language Revision
197(12)
Summary of
Chapter 7
201(8)
Chapter 8 Evaluating Extended Arguments
209(28)
1 The Basic Tasks of Essay Evaluation
210(6)
2 The Margin Note and Summary Method
216(1)
3 Extended Evaluation of an Argument
217(5)
4 Dealing with Value Claims
222(3)
5 Evaluating Ironic Works
225(12)
Summary of
Chapter 8
225(12)
Chapter 9 Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays
237(22)
1 The Writing Process
238(1)
2 Preparing to Write
238(1)
3 Writing the Essay
239(4)
4 Supporting Reasons Effectively
243(16)
Summary of
Chapter 9
249(10)
Chapter 10 Advertising: Selling the Product
259(34)
1 Are Advertisements Arguments? Examples of Rhetoric?
260(1)
2 Promise and Identification Advertisements
261(1)
3 Things to Watch Out for in Advertisements
262(10)
4 The Upside of Ads
272(1)
5 Targeted Advertising and Big Data
273(1)
6 Political Advertising
274(19)
Summary of
Chapter 10
284(9)
Chapter 11 Managing the News
293(46)
1 The Media and the Power of Money
295(12)
2 News-Gathering Methods Are Designed to Save Money
307(2)
3 News Reporting: Theory and Practice
309(7)
4 Devices Used to Slant the News
316(5)
5 Television and the Internet
321(3)
6 The Non-Mass Media to the Rescue
324(2)
7 News Media Concentration
326(13)
Summary of
Chapter 11
330(9)
Chapter 12 New Media, Cyberculture, and Public Discourse
339(22)
1 Discourse in a Digital Age
342(8)
2 Privacy, Celebrity, and Anonymity
350(2)
3 Speaking Directly to the Public
352(3)
4 Using and Misusing Mass Communication
355(6)
Summary of
Chapter 12
356(5)
Chapter 13 Argument and Rhetoric in Fiction
361(33)
1 Fictions as Arguments
362(6)
2 The Persuasive Power of Fiction
368(4)
3 The Downsides to Fiction's Power to Persuade
372(1)
4 Rhetoric in Various Forms of Storytelling
373(9)
Summary of
Chapter 13
380(2)
Appendix More on Cogent Reasoning
382(1)
1 More on Cause and Effect
382(1)
2 Scientific Method
383(3)
3 Criteria for Theory Selection
386(2)
4 Calculating Probabilities and Fair Odds
388(6)
Answers to Starred Exercise Items 394(8)
Bibliography 402(10)
Glossary 412(6)
Index 418
Frank Boardman is a visiting assistant professor at Dickinson College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Nancy M. Cavender is Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin. Howard Kahane received a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch college in New York and is considered one of the founders of the critical-thinking movement, an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues.