How To Do Things With Logic

by William Bechtel, C. Grant Luckhardt, Grant Luckhardt

Book Overview

In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe that while students learn to become vicious critics, they still continue to make the very mistakes they criticize in others. Thus, this book has adopted the approach of teaching the construction of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080580076X
• ISBN13: 9780805800760
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A very good book for beginning college writers.

The authors provide an excellent method for incorporating formal logic into the essay form. I highly recommend this book for students and teachers of rhetoric and composition. I have found this method not only helps college freshman write more logically, but also teaches them to structure their papers better, organize their ideas better, and generally write better arguments. The authors should consider expanding their method to other disciplines.