Author: James E. Gowe
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: arguments
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0559803230
ISBN-13: 9780559803239

Author: T.L.S. Sprigge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophers, arguments, santayana
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-04-11
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415117518
ISBN-13: 9780415117517

This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in The Arguments of the Philosophers series. Growing interest in the work of this important American philosopher has prompted this new edition of the book, complete with a new preface by the author reassessing his own ideas about Santayana. The new edition also includes a useful select bibliography of works published about Santayana since the book’s first appearance.

Author: A. R. Lacey
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophers, arguments, bergson
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 1989-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415030072
ISBN-13: 9780415030076

Bergson was one of the foremost thinkers to come out of France in the late nineteenth century. A.R. Lacey examines his arguments from theories of metaphysics, identity and psychoanalysis to his moral philosophy and philosophy of science. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of philosophy.

Author: Albert Meltzer
Publisher: AK Press
Keywords: arguments, anarchism
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1873176570
ISBN-13: 9781873176573

This is the second revised edition of Anarchism: Arguments For and Against and was the edition that Albert Meltzer was working on at the time of his death on May 7th, 1996. This book was an important one to Albert and it was one whose arguments he came back to often in his other writings.Albert had become increasingly concerned about what he saw as the ghettoisation of anarchism. Separated from the working class base so necessary to achieve social revolution, anarchism could easily fall into the twin traps of philosophical radicalism or revolutionary arrogance, the "we’re more militant t

Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Keywords: ignorance, arguments
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-09-18
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 027101475X
ISBN-13: 9780271014753

Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious. Douglas Walton draws on everyday conversations on all kinds of practical matters in which the argumentum ad ignorantiam is used quite appropriately to infer conclusions. He also discusses the inappropriate use of this kind of argument, referring to various major case studies, including the Salem witchcraft trials, the McCarthy hearing

Author: Anthony Weston
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: arguments, rulebook
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0872205525
ISBN-13: 9780872205529

Updated examples, streamlined text, and the chapter on definition reworked in a rule-based format strengthen this already strong volume. Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a text that retains all the features that make Rulebook ideally suited for use as a supplementary course book-including its modest price and compact size. Unlike most textbooks on argumentative writing, Rulebook is organized around specific rules, illustrated and explained soundly and briefly. It is not a textbook, but a rulebook, whose goal is to help students get on with writing a paper or assessing a

Author: Anthony Weston
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: arguments, rulebook
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2008-11-14
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0872209547
ISBN-13: 9780872209541

A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer - translated into eight languages - remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them.The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples and topics throughout.