Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation
of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text
itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating
the most common kinds of arguments, the book also explains how to evaluate each kind by critical questioning. Douglas
Walton shows how arguments can be reasonable under the right dialogue conditions by using critical questions to
evaluate them. The book teaches by example, both in the text itself and in exercises, but it is based on methods
that have been developed through the author�s thirty years of research in argumentation studies.
Based on solid research on argumentation and informal logic representing the state of the art method and techniques
Uses realistic dialogues featuring examples of political, scientific and legal argumentation familiar to students
both from university and everyday life
Instead of simply rejecting everyday arguments as fallacious on an intuitive basis, offers guidelines for pinpointing
their strengths and weaknesses
