Scott Aikin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA. John Casey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.

Written with admirable clarity and liveliness, this accessible volume reveals the unexpected complexities of straw man arguments. Aikin and Casey supply a thoughtful taxonomy of this fallacy and address some of the puzzles it generates. Along the way, they share their exceptional expertise on how to teach argumentation theory, and exemplify the value of knowing how to argue about arguments.

• Acknowledgements1. Fallacy Theory and the Straw Man2. Fallacy Names and the History of the ‘Straw Man’3. Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men4. Straw Men and Iron Men5. The Puzzle of Effectiveness6. The Puzzles of Dialecticality and Meta-Argumentation7. Consequences for Fallacy TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex

Scott Aikin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA. John Casey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.

Written with admirable clarity and liveliness, this accessible volume reveals the unexpected complexities of straw man arguments. Aikin and Casey supply a thoughtful taxonomy of this fallacy and address some of the puzzles it generates. Along the way, they share their exceptional expertise on how to teach argumentation theory, and exemplify the value of knowing how to argue about arguments.

• Acknowledgements1. Fallacy Theory and the Straw Man2. Fallacy Names and the History of the ‘Straw Man’3. Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men4. Straw Men and Iron Men5. The Puzzle of Effectiveness6. The Puzzles of Dialecticality and Meta-Argumentation7. Consequences for Fallacy TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex