T. Edward Damer is an American philosopher and author.
Biography
Damer was a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at
Emory and Henry College in
Emory, Virginia
Emory is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,251 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Kingsport– Bristol (TN)– Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a com ...
. He started on the Emory faculty in 1967 and retired in 2012. In 1991, he won the James A. David Faculty Recognition Award from the Emory alumni in recognition of his teaching.
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Works
He is the author of ''
Attacking Faulty Reasoning
''Attacking Faulty Reasoning'' is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many years in a number of college courses on logic, critical thinking, argumentation, and philosophy. It explains 60 of the most commonly ...
'', a textbook on logical
fallacies
A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves," in the construction of an argument which may appear stronger than it really is if the fallacy is not spotted. The term in the Western intellectual tradition was intr ...
. The book defines and explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. It also gives specific suggestions about how to address or to "attack" each fallacy when it is encountered.
The organization of the fallacies comes from the author's own theories that have accumulated through years of research and study, which defines a fallacy as a violation of one of the five criteria of a good argument.
See also
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Argumentation
Argumentation theory, or argumentation, is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be supported or undermined by premises through logical reasoning. With historical origins in logic, dialectic, and rhetoric, argumentation theory, incl ...
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External links
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American logicians
Emory and Henry College faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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