Logic: Who Needs It?

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  • General Introductions to Formal Logic
  • Alexander, Peter. An Introduction to Logic: The Criticism of Arguments. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1969. Coffey, P. 
  • The Science of Logic. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912.
  • Copi, Irving. Introduction to Logic. 7^th ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. [available in multiple editions]
  • Davis, Wayne. An Introduction to Logic. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1986.
  • Kahane, Howard. Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1969.
  • Kegley, Charles and Jacquelyn Ann Kegley. Introduction to Logic. Lanham, New York: University Press of America, 1984.
  • Kelley, David. The Art of Reasoning. 3^rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
  • McCall, Raymond. Basic Logic. 2^nd ed. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1952.   
  • Books on Informal Logic and Reasoning
  • Fahnestock, Jeanne and Marie Secor. A Rhetoric of Argument. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
  • Grovier, Trudy. A Practical Study of Argument. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1985.
  • Kaplan, Michael and Ellen Kaplan. Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. [for informative entertainment]
  • Scriven, Michael. Reasoning. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. [for a very interesting presentation of informal logic]
  • Weston, Anthony. A Rulebook for Arguments. 4^th ed. Hackett Publishing Company, 2009. [for advice on assessing and constructing arguments]
  • Walton, Douglas N. Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.   
  • Books to Stretch Your Mind
  • Bird, Otto. Syllogistic and its Extensions. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1964.
  • Booth, Wayne C. Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974.
  • Bradley, Raymond and Norman Schwartz. Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and its Philosophy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979.
  • Geach, Peter T. Logic Matters. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972).
  • Geach, Peter T. Reason and Argument. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976.
  • Haack, Susan. Philosophy of Logics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  • Veatch, Henry. Two Logics. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1969.