Straw Man Arguments: A Study in Fallacy Theory

by John Casey and Scott Aikin

This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device.

Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350065005
• ISBN13: 9781350065000
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"