Argumentation and Critical Decision Making

The first and most thoroughly developed audience-oriented argumentation text has been updated to its 8^th edition: Argumentation and Critical Decision Making presents argumentation as a cooperative, communicative process. This text examines the general principles of argument in a rigorous yet readable manner and then applies those principles to different spheres of life — law, science, religion, business, government, and politics — to explore how conventions of argument change when applied t...