The Duck that Won the Lottery: And 99 Other Bad Arguments

Britain's best-loved popular philosopher, provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad arguments people use all the time, in politics, media and every day life. Each entry takes as its starting point an example of questionable reasoning, and Baggini, with characteristic clarity and wit, dissects the argument and then invites readers to do the same with other examples, and in their daily lives. Catch your friends 'loading the dice', or broadcasters committing the 'fallacy of the complex question'. Learn how to spot false dichotomies, gambler's fallacies and un-flagrant contradictions, and add 'slippery slopes' and 'post hoc fallacies' to your rhetorical toolkit.