Following an approach that is empirical but not psychological, and dialectical but not dialogical, Maurice Finocchiaro defines concepts such as reasoning, argument, argument analysis, critical reasoning, methodological reflection, judgment, critical thinking, and informal logic. Including extended critiques of the views of many contemporary scholars, he also integrates into the discussion Arnauld's Port-Royal Logic, Gramsci's theory of intellectuals, and case studies from the history of science, particularly the work of Galileo, Newton, Huygens, and Lavoisier.
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This book brings together a selection of essays by one of the pre-eminent scholars of informal logic. Following an approach that is empirical but not psychological, dialectical but not dialogical, and focused on interpretation without neglecting evaluation, Maurice Finocchiaro defines concepts such as reasoning, argument, argument analysis, critical reasoning, methodological reflection, judgment, critical thinking, and informal logic. He defends theses about the rarity of fallacies but the frequency of fallacious reasoning; the asymmetry of positive and negative in argumentation, interpretation, and evaluation; and the role of critical thinking in science, among other topics. And he presents extended critiques of the views of many contemporary scholars, while also integrating into the discussion Arnauld's Port-Royal Logic, Gramsci's theory of intellectuals, and case studies from the history of science, particularly the work of Galileo, Newton, Huygens, and Lavoisier.
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Port-Royal Logic, Snoeck Henkemans, Galileo's Dialogue, Professor Heidelberger, Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei, Two Empirical Approaches, Jonathan Cohen, Methodological Problems, Prison Notebooks, Richard Nixon, United States, Harold Brown, Thomas Kuhn, Dudley Shapere, Michael Scriven, Newton's Principia, Two New Sciences, Descartes's Meditations, Euclid's Elements, James Madison, Karl Marx's Capital, Plato's Republic, Professor Thomson, Ralph Johnson New!
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apparent vertical fall, dialectical tier, actual vertical fall, illative core, illative component, earth cannot rotate, valid philosophical arguments, argument being evaluated, dialectical obligations, apriorist approach, formal invalidity, conceptual explicitness, contrary consequent, natural language argumentation, positive undermining, manifest rationality, one natural motion, metallic calces, argument instantiates, informal logic, singular intuitions, empirical logic, moderate conception, heavier bodies fall faster, invalid argument form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port-Royal Logic, Snoeck Henkemans, Galileo's Dialogue, Professor Heidelberger, Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei, Two Empirical Approaches, Jonathan Cohen, Methodological Problems, Prison Notebooks, Richard Nixon, United States, Harold Brown, Thomas Kuhn, Dudley Shapere, Michael Scriven, Newton's Principia, Two New Sciences, Descartes's Meditations, Euclid's Elements, James Madison, Karl Marx's Capital, Plato's Republic, Professor Thomson, Ralph Johnson New!
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- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas on 4 pages
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide by David Hume on page 76, page 154, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Logical Theory (University Paperbacks) by P.F. Strawson in Front Matter, page 130, and Back Matter
- Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by M.A. Finocchiaro in Front Matter, page 300, and Back Matter
- Critical Thinking: An Introduction by Alec Fisher on page 92, page 96, and Back Matter
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