This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in
philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic
dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the
attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. Scott Aikin and John
Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing
distorted representations of one’s critical interlocutor. To this
end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms, and not only
the one that is usually suggested: the straw man, the weak man and
the hollow man. Moreover, they demonstrate that straw manning is
unique among fallacies as it has no particular logical form in
itself, because it is an instance of inappropriate meta-argument,
or argument about arguments. They discuss the importance of the
onlooking audience to the successful deployment of the straw man,
reasoning that the existence of an audience complicates the
dialectical boundaries of argument. Providing a lively, provocative
and thorough analysis of the straw man fallacy, this book will
appeal to postgraduates and researchers alike, working in a range
of fields including fallacies, rhetoric, argumentation theory and
informal logic.
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