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

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     [Johnson’s essays clearly articulate] the goals, concerns and problems of informal logic....A discipline of informal logic might exist today without the writings of Johnson and his frequent co-author J. Anthony Blair. But it would almost certainly be quite different from what it actually is....
     There is enormously provocative material here, not only for logicians, formal and informal, but also for those working in related areas in philosophy, argumentation, speech communication, pragmatics, rhetoric, and linguistics. Teachers of courses in critical thinking and practical reasoning will also encounter here many ideas to stimulate a probing and deeper understanding of their work.                                                      --- From the editor’s introduction

A must read for anyone interested in argument and critical thinking.                                                                                      --- Trudy Govier

$21.45 paper · ISBN 0916475-255 · 302 pages · 1996   
$48.65 hardcover · ISBN 0916475-263                          

Ralph H. Johnson

In addition to writing numerous articles on informal logic and associated topics, Ralph H. Johnson co-organized three international symposia on informal logic and co-edits—with J. Anthony Blair—the journal Informal Logic, founded by Johnson and Blair in 1978. With Blair he co-authored Logical Self-Defense, now in its third Canadian and first American edition. He is a founding member of the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking. He has lectured and conducted workshops on informal logic throughout North America and in Europe. Ralph Johnson is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.