Historical Foundations of Informal Logic

Zusatztext 'Collection of papers... concentrate almost exclusively on formal logic...... contain much that would in recent years be discussed under the heading of formal logic' Bibliographie De la Philosophie Informationen zum Autor Douglas Walton, Alan Brinton Zusammenfassung In response to the growing recognition of informal logic as a discipline in its own right, this collection of essays from leading contributors in the field provides the formative knowledge and historical context required to understand the development of a so far little studied subject area. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; The logic of Greek sophistry; The roots of informal logic in Plato; Aristotle and informal logic; Forms of argumentation in medieval dialectic; The Port Royal Logic; The Logick of Isaac Watts; Whately and the study of fallacious reasoning; Jeremy Bentham's Handbook of Political Fallacies; Mill on inference and fallacies; Kant and informal logic; Informal logic in the twentieth century; Index of names.

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• Authors: Alan Brinton, Brinton Alan, Douglas Walton, Douglas Brinton Walton, Walton Douglas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138267558
• ISBN: 978-1-138-26755-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Avebury Series in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology