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The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature
Stephen Edelston Toulmin

University of California Press, 1985

The Uses of Argument

3 reviews
Stephen Edelston Toulmin

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Brillant book, giving new insights on our use of reason
It is a book you won't forget. Far from being boring or too technical, it is filled with examples, often funny, that help you to understand better the way our reasoning works. The classical categories are here related to our daily use of reason and the 'human face' of logic is brillantly presented.

Introduction to Reasoning

1 review
Stephen Edelston Toulmin

Prentice Hall, 1984

One of the better books I've ever read about reasoning
Toulmin's contribution to rhetoric is well known and this is one of the fundamental stones not only for rhetoric but for how to better think and argument, and also (of course) to getting a more influence skills. This is one of the best

The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 4, 1925 - 1953: 1929: The Quest for Certainty (Collected Works of John ...
John Dewey

Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry "(Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 "Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, "and two items from "Intelligence in the Modern World." "" "Freedom and Culture "presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, "the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their ...

Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

9 reviews
Stephen Edelston Toulmin

University of Chicago Press, 1992

On the Madness of the West
and How it Ended up Creating the World as We Know It_ could have been another title of this superb book that is written with cogency, urgency, and a real desire to get across the reader what the author has to say. The synopsis of the story is as another reveiwer has already described below: namely that the kick-off of modernity with Descartes' "I think therefore I am" was not something that ...