Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation

<strong>Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation</strong> presents the basic tools for theidentification analysis and evaluation of common arguments for beginners... » 

Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for theidentification analysis and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. Thebook teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues both in the textitself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal political andethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating the most common kinds ofarguments the book also explains how to evaluate each kind by criticalquestioning. Douglas Walton shows how arguments can be reasonable under theright dialogue conditions by using critical questions to evaluate them. Thebook teaches by example both in the text itself and in exercises but it isbased on methods that have been developed through the authors thirty years ofresearch in argumentation studies. «