T. Edward "Ed" Damer (August 16, 1937 - March 21, 2024) was an American philosopher, author, father, and grandfather.
Biography
Damer was a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at
Emory and Henry College
Emory & Henry University (E&H or Emory) is a private university in Emory, Virginia, United States. The campus comprises of Washington County, which is part of the Appalachian highlands of Southwest Virginia. Founded in 1836, Emory & Henry U ...
in
Emory, Virginia
Emory is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,237 at the 2020 census down from 1,251 at the 2010 census. The community is named for and is the location of Emory and Henry College.
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. 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: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free Arguments'' 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 ...
'', a textbook on logical
fallacies
A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The term was introduced in the Western intellectual tradition by the Aristotelian '' De Sophis ...
. 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
An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. The purpose of an argument is to give reasons for one's conclusion via justification, explanation, and/or persu ...
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External links
Home page
American logicians
Emory and Henry University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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