Good Reasoning Matters!

Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Getting Started: Looking for an Argument
2. Argument Diagrams: Pointing the Way
3. Implicit Argument Components: Filling in the Blanks
4. Definitions: Saying What you Mean
5. Bias: Reading Between the Lines
6. Strong and Weak Arguments: Preparing for Evaluations
7. Syllogisms I: Classifying Arguments
8. Syllogisms II: Testing Classes
9. Propositional Logic I: Some Ifs, Ands and Buts
10. Propositional Logic II: Conditionals, Dilemmas, and Reductions
11. Ordinary Reasoning: Assessing the Basics
12. Empirical Schemes of Argument: Nothing but the Facts
13. Moral and Political Reasoning: Schemes of Value
14. Ethotic Schemes: Judging Character
15. Argumentative Writing: Essaying an Argument
Selected Answers
Index

Instructor's Manual
Expanded Test Bank
PowerPoint Slides

Dr. Leo Groarke is the Dean of the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario. His academic interests include ethics, aesthetics, and the history of ideas. His work in all three areas is motivated by an interest in the limits of rationality and science and an emphasis on concrete ethical and aesthetic questions, as opposed to abstract theoretical disputes. Professor Christopher Tindale received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, having recently come from Trent University where her was the acting chair of the Department of Philosophy. His primary interests are in argumentation theory, Greek philosophy, and moral issues.

Special Features

• Innovative approach. Rather than the traditional 'spot the fallacies' approach to argumentation, GRM! focuses on identifying the essentials of a good argument in a variety of contexts and provides guidelines to help students build their own arguments (see chap. 12, 13, 14 for examples).
• Challenges students. Combining a larger formal logic component (pp. 202-255 - chap. 9 & 10) with argumentative skills and their applications, GRM is the ideal text for instructors wanting to engage and challenge their students.
• Well-balanced material. Both informal reasoning and propositional logic are included, offering instructors the flexibility to select content as they see fit.
• Critical thinking for the 21st century. Analysis of visual argumentation, a form of analysis that has become a significant aspect of critical thinking in the 21st century, ensures students are receiving the most relevant and modern introduction available.
• Key Pedagogy. Chapters are constructed with student learning in mind and feature, chapter objectives, in-text exercises, detailed end-of-chapter exercises, and study questions related to each chapter's theory.

• NEW! Updated chapter summaries highlight key terms and important concepts for students.
• NEW! Inter-chapter references connect key material throughout the text.
• NEW! Study questions refer directly to theories examined in each chapter and provide students with an additional tool for study.
• NEW! In-text exercises of varying length and difficulty are featured at the end of each chapter and offer students further opportunity for study.
• NEW! Up-to-date web links offer furthered reading on the aspects of critical thinking that interest students most.