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Fallacies - Selected Papers 1972-1982 (Paperback, New)
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In the past forty years there has been a revolution in logic. There
is a widening consensus that mathematical logic has not been a
satisfactory theory of argumentation, where argumentation is taken
as a means of rational belief-revision and conflict resolution. It
is also widely held that the traditional informal fallacies are
inadequately analyzed in standard accounts found in the logical
writings of the period 1950-1970. Here in nineteen chapters are the
classical papers of Woods and Walton published in the decade
1972-1982, and constituting the so-called Woods-Walton Approach to
fallacy theory. Originally published as a collection in 1989, the
book is now re-issued with a new Forward by Dale Jacquette. Woods
and Walton are recognized for their seminal role in reviving the
fallacies project in logic and giving to the fallacies research
programme much of its evolving character and emphasis. It is one of
their principal contentions that the fallacies respond best to
theoretical pluralism and that different analytical tools are
needed for different fallacies. Again conveniently available in a
single volume, these papers are indispensable reading for a new
generation of researchers in informal logic, argumentation theory,
critical thinking, computer science, linguistics and cognitive
psychology. John Woods is also author of The Death of Argument:
Fallacies in Agent-Based Reasoning 2005. Douglas Walton is author
of A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy 1995.
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