PHIL1010: Thinking and Reasoning

This is an auxilliary page to Ian Gold's Thinking and Reasoning course, covering the three lectures on argumentation and fallacies given by me (Charles Twardy).

References on Reasoning and Argumentation

Scriven, Michael. 1976. Reasoning McGraw-Hill.
A short and well-thought-out introduction to reasoning. Meant to be worked through, Scriven develops the idea of argument analysis in 7 steps.
  1. Clarification of meaning
  2. Identification of conclusions
  3. Portrayal of Structure
  4. Formulation of (Unstated) assumptions (missing premises)
  5. Criticism of premises and inferences
  6. Introduction of other relevant arguments
  7. Overall evaluation
Fogelin and ??. (____) Understanding Arguments.
A longer book which spends more time discussing the various fallacies. Also includes chapters on probabilistic reasoning and heuristics.
Charles Twardy
Last modified: Thu May 17 15:10:30 EST 2001