Frank Boardman is a visiting assistant professor at Dickinson College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Nancy M. Cavender is Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin. Howard Kahane received a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch college in New York and is considered one of the founders of the critical-thinking movement, an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues.

• 1. Good and Bad Reasoning.2. More on Deduction and Induction.3. Fallacies: Questionable Premises.4. Fallacies: Invalid Inferences.5. Fallacies: Misusing Induction.6. Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot.7. Language.8. Evaluating Extended Arguments.9. Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays.10. Advertising: Selling the Product.11. Managing the News.12. New Media, Cyberculture and Public Discourse.13. Argument and Rhetoric in Fiction.Appendix: More on Cogent Reasoning.Answers to Starred Exercise Items.Bibliography.Annotated List of Periodicals.Glossary.Index.