Fallacies and Argument Appraisal

by Christopher W. Tindale

• ISBN13: 9780521603065
• ISBN10: 0521603064
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fallacies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained relevant since Aristotle, Christopher Tindale investigates central cases of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and how this has occurred. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and brief descriptions of fallacies, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize the dialectical and rhetorical contexts in which fallacies arise. This volume analyzes major fallacies through accessible, everyday examples. Critical questions are developed for each fallacy to help the student identify them and provide considered evaluations.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

List of acronyms

How to use this book

Simple Regression and Data Analysis

An introduction to ordinary least squares

Running simple regressions: global poverty and growth

Using logs and estimating elasticities: demand for air travel

Hypothesis testing: health expenditures and the quality of life

Multiple Regression and Diagnostic Testing

Multiple regression analysis: housing demand in the UK

Heteroscedasticity: R&D, innovation and economic performance

Autocorrelation: tourism and the environment

Model misspecification: Tobin's q and investment in the USA

Time Series Econometrics

Structural breaks, non-stationarity and spurious regressions: venture capital and computing investment in the USA

Error correction models AND cointegration: consumption and the multiplier in the UK

Advanced Topics

Panel estimation: divorce and income

Binary dependent variables: war and poverty

Index

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