Vale Press Titles

Reason Reclaimed
Edited and introduced by Hans V. Hansen & Robert C. Pinto
Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 5

Copyright 2007    313 pp. plus xiv
Nineteen essays by leading writers on dialectical issues, the burden of proof, the nature and scope of argument, and fallacies.

Critical Thinking by John Hoaglund

Fourth Edition

A textbook for a college course on critical thinking, informal logic, or practical reasoning. Suitable for use in the general education curriculum and accessible to the beginning college student.

Fallacies by C. L. Hamblin
With a current bibliography by Michael F. Schmidt
and Hans V. Hansen
Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 1
A history and analysis of the most important writing on logical fallacies, and a theory of fallacy.

The Philosophy of Argument by Trudy Govier
Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 3
Considers the importance of skill at argument for democracy, the stands by several feminist writers on whether women should avoid argument or seek to master it, and how argument is to be evaluated.

Slippery Slope Arguments
by Douglas Walton

Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 4
"a careful, thorough, and insightful study of slippery slope arguments, their rich variety, and their strengths and weaknesses."
                                           Bruce N. Waller, Mind

The Rise of Informal Logic by Ralph H. Johnson
Essays on Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Reasoning and Politics
With four chapter co-authored by J. Anthony Blair
Studies in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic No. 2
Examines the rise of informal logic since the mid-twentieth century as a logic of argument in natural language and of informal fallacies.

Argumentation & Rhetoric
edited by Hans V. Hansen et al.
CD-rom
Sixty-one contributions representing current research on argumentation, rhetoric, informal logic, and  practical reasoning. Sally Jackson explores the application of ideal types of argumentation, exposing defects in actual argument but also leading to refinements in theoretical models. Nicholas Rescher distinguishes rhetoric from strictly rational argumentation to shed light on the practice of philosophizing.

Analysing Complex Argumentation
by A. F. Snoeck Henkemans
Sic Sat Series in Argumentation and Communication
No. 6
The most extensive and careful study to date of linked and convergent arguments.

New Essays in Informal Logic edited by Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair
Twelve essays by leading informal logicians with argument assessment as main focus.

Studies in Pragma-Dialectics
edited by F. H. van Eemeren et al
Sic Sat Series in Argumentation and Communication
No. 4
Twenty-two contributions on argumentation from several perspectives, representing mainly the work of the Amsterdam School of Argumentation.