The Rise of Informal Logic
by Ralph H. Johnson
Essays on Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Reasoning and Politics
With four chapters co-authored by J. Anthony Blair

Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 2

 [Samples] [About the Author]

1. The Recent Development of Informal Logic

2. Informal Logic: Past and Present

3. The New Logic Course: The State of the Art in Non-Formal Methods of Argument Analysis

            II. Informal Logic and Argumentation

4. Logic Naturalized: Recovering a Tradition

5. Argumentation as Dialectical

6. Argumentation: A Pragmatic Perspective

           III. Other Voices

7. Toulmin’s Bold Experiment

8. Hamblin on the Standard Treatment

9. Acceptance is not Enough: A Critique of Hamblin

10. Massey on Fallacy and Informal Logic: A Reply

11. McPeck’s Misconceptions

          IV. Informal Logic and Reasoning

12. The Problem of Defining Critical Thinking

13. The Place of Argumentation in the Theory of Reasoning

14. Reasoning, Critical Thinking and the Network Problem

15. The Contribution of Informal Logic to the Theory of Reasoning

16. Informal Logic and Politics

        Bibliography