Straw Man Arguments: A Study in Fallacy Theory

by Scott Aikin and John Casey

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135028470X
• ISBN13: 9781350284708
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"