Week 2: Fallacies and Fallaciousness

From JSTOR, read:

1. Adler, "Fallacies not Fallacious, Not!"

http://libproxy.mcla.edu:2095/stable/40237963

(further, optional reading): Levi, "In Defense of Informal Logic."

http://libproxy.mcla.edu:2095/stable/40237520

2. Hurley text: (I understand that this is review for most of you): Read Chapter 3, "Informal Fallacies." To test your understanding, identify the fallacies, where they occur, in exercise 3.5.

Week 1: Reason/Argument

Reading: 1. "What is Reasoning? What is an Argument? Douglas N. Walton.

 http://libproxy.mcla.edu:2095/stable/2026735

2. "What is an Argument?" Terence Parsons.

http://libproxy.mcla.edu:2095/stable/2940886

We may begin discussing these essays, beginning with Walton's, as early as Friday, though our continuing preliminary review of the basics may preempt those discussions.

Text for Spring, 2016

I will be using (among other online sources) Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic, 9th edition, this coming semester. Please order the 9th edition on Amazon or elsewhere (it will not be in the bookstore). Amazon has used copies for around $1.