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 This book
belongs on even the most modest list of those who will teach or study modern informal
logic. It was a path-breaking work by one of the truly independent spirits in philosophy
who sat down to rethink received doctrine that had been accepted for 1000 years. A large
slice of modern research and teaching of logic has sprung from the letter or the spirit of
this very important work.
--- Michael Scriven
An indispensable
resource for serious students of the fallacies. Provides the historical and conceptual
background on which all work of the last twenty years is based. Still a powerfully
original work studded with yet undeveloped insights and illuminations. --- Douglas
Walton
...His monograph provides the only extensive history of writing
about fallacies (an excellent one at that); it underscores the neglect that fallacies have
been subjected to in logic texts, and by extension draws attention to the neglect of the
whole of informal logic; and it offers a theory of fallacy of great interest, particularly
because it builds from a concept of argument as used in practice. --- R. H. Johnson and J. A. Blair on Hamblin, "The Recent Development of
Informal Logic," Informal Logic. The First International Symposium, (Point Reyes, CA
1980) p. 6.
$22.45 paper · ISBN 0916475-239
· 349 pages 2004 printing
$48.65 cloth · ISBN 0916475-239
(1998 printing only)
C. L. Hamblin
C. L. Hamblin (1923-1985) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South
Wales in Sydney, Australia. Fallacies is his major contribution to logic. He
furthered the development of computer languages in the 1950s—notably the use of
reverse Polish notation for calculating. In addition to ancient Greek, Hamblin was
familiar with several Asian and Pacific languages. A classical music lover who played the
piano, Hamblin was setting words of Wittgenstein to music while hospitalized with an
affliction that proved fatal.
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