Facilitate honest, thoughtful and respectful consideration of controversial questions - Congenial Debates on Controversial Questions is designed to promote careful and vigorous yet congenial and respectful examination of a wide range of controversial ethical issues. KEY TOPICS: Material on critical thinking - Introductory material on critical thinking, enhances cooperative critical thinking and avoids the destructive fallacies that promote acrimony rather than insight. The Straw Man fallacy - Every chapter notes Straw Man distortions on both sides of the controversy and discusses in detailed examinations the Straw Man fallacy and its destructiveness. MARKET: For those interested in recognizing misinformation in controversial arguments, and creating a respectful dialogue of controversial issues.
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