A Practical Study of Argument

A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT gives you the tools you need to understand informal logic and formulate a good argument. By focusing on real world examples and including helpful study tools such as exercises with answers, a glossary of common fallacies, chapter summaries, and a book-specific website, A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT provides you with everything you need to master the material with ease.i

Govier, a Canadian philosopher and lecturer, explains the uses of good arguments, and provides the theoretical base for determining which arguments are good, and which are bad. She describes inductively strong and deductively valid arguments, as well as analogies and fallacies, supported with numerous examples and exercises. The sixth edition expands the discussion of internet sources, explores the significance of the failure to find WMDs in Iraq, and provides five new essays for analysis in the appendix. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Trudy Govier, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, is a philosopher, author, and speaker who is widely known for her dynamic style of speaking and writing and her passionate advocacy of reasoned responses to conflict. She has spoken and written extensively on reconciliation, violence and non-violence, and topics in informal logic.