T. Edward Damer
Encyclopedia
Biography=
Dr. Damer is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at Emory and Henry College
in Emory, Virginia
. He has been on the Emory faculty since 1967. In 1991, he won the James A. David Faculty Recognition Award from the Emory alumni in recognition of his teaching.
, a textbook on logical fallacies. The book defines and explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. It also gives specific suggestions about how to address or to "attack" each fallacy when it is encountered. The organization of the fallacies comes from the author’s own theories that have accumulated through years of research and study, which defines a fallacy as a violation of one of the five criteria of a good argument.
Dr. Damer is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at Emory and Henry College
Emory and Henry College
Emory & Henry College, known as E&H, Emory, or the College, is a private liberal arts college located in Emory, Virginia, United States. The campus comprises of Washington County, Virginia, which is part of the mountain region of Southwest Virginia...
in Emory, Virginia
Emory, Virginia
Emory is a census-designated place in Washington County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,251 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Kingsport–Bristol –Bristol Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA...
. He has been on the Emory faculty since 1967. In 1991, he won the James A. David Faculty Recognition Award from the Emory alumni in recognition of his teaching.
Works
He is the author of Attacking Faulty ReasoningAttacking Faulty Reasoning
Attacking Faulty Reasoning is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many years in a number of college courses on logic, critical thinking, argumentation, and philosophy. It explains 60 of the most commonly committed logical fallacies. Each of the fallacies is...
, a textbook on logical fallacies. The book defines and explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. It also gives specific suggestions about how to address or to "attack" each fallacy when it is encountered. The organization of the fallacies comes from the author’s own theories that have accumulated through years of research and study, which defines a fallacy as a violation of one of the five criteria of a good argument.