© Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. BOOKS RECEIVED Notice of BOOKS RECEIVED Policy Informal Logic no longer invites descriptive book reviews. However, at the end of each issue of the journal, Informal Logic will print, and re-print, notices of monographs, collected papers, proceedings of conferences, an- thologies and any similar scholarly books (not textbooks) published during the previous four years on topics related to informal logic, critical thinking, argument (logic, dialectic, rhetoric) theory or practice. The notice, to be supplied by the author(s) or editor(s) or publisher, may simply describe the work or shamelessly promote it, or both, but must not exceed 150 words. Each notice will be reprinted in each issue of the journal until four years after the year the edition of the book was first published. (Be sure to in- clude at least the author’s or editor’s name, the title of the book, the year of publication, the publisher and the number of pages.) We hope this de- partment of the journal will serve as a resource for researchers wanting to know of recent work in the field. Send notices to: tblair@uwindsor.ca. A reader may apply to the editors to publish a critical review of a book on the notices list, and the editors may from time to time commission such a critical review. Books Received (by date): LEWINSKI, MARCIN AND MARK AAKHUS (2022) Argumentation in Complex Communication: Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue. Cambridge University Press. xiii + 256pp. Argumentation is predominantly conceptualized as two parties ar- guing pro and con positions with each other in one place. This dy- adic bias undermines the capacity to engage argumentation in com- plex communication in contemporary, digital society. This book of- fers an ambitious alternative course of inquiry for the analysis, eval- uation, and design of argumentation as polylogue: various actors ar- guing over many positions across multiple places. Taking up key aspects of the twentieth-century revival of argumentation as a com- municative, situated practice, the polylogue framework engages a 148 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. wider range of discourses, messages, interactions, technologies, and institutions necessary for adequately engaging the contemporary en- tanglement of argumentation and complex communication in hu- man activities. EEMEREN, FRANS H. VAN, BART GARSSEN, SARA GRECO, TON VAN HAAFTEN, NANON LABRIE, FERNANDO LEAL, AND PENG WU (2022) Argumentative Style. John Benjamins. X + 332pp Argumentative Style discusses the ways the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. Situated in the theoreti- cal framework of pragma-dialectics, argumentative style means that the choices involved do not only concern the presentational dimen- sion, but also the topical selection and the audience adaptation of the strategic manoeuvring in the discourse. In identifying the func- tional variety of argumentative styles utilised in different domains, the point of departure is that argumentative styles manifest them- selves in the discourse in the argumentative moves that are made, the dialectical routes that are chosen, and the strategic considera- tions that are brought to bear. GEORGE BOGER (2022) Aristotle's Syllogistic Underlying Logic: His Model with his Proofs of Soundness and Completeness. London: College Publications: pp. 1-446. This is a ground-breaking and thorough study of Aristotle's logic, including a new translation of select chapters of Prior Analytics that treat the logic's formal components. It shows that Aristotle con- sciously modeled his Underlying Logic, that Prior Analytics is a metasystematic discourse with its own underlying logic. The author clearly demonstrates that Aristotle conceived his logic as natural by explicating his notion of human cognition, central to which is his epistemic concern with syllogistic mediation that restricts a syllo- Books Received 149 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. gism to two premises. The study further represents Aristotle's phi- losophy of logic as having a fully developed ontology that underlies the epistemics of syllogistic argumentation. Unlike previous scholarship, this study works with the entire corpus of the Organon to assemble Aristotle's underlying logic in Aristo- tle's own words with extensive citation of primary texts. An espe- cially innovative feature is to block passages of the text and to insert subsection titles that help (1) to elucidate Aristotle's meaning, (2) to indicate the movement of his thinking, and (3) to reveal the careful and systematic character of his logical investigations. SCOTT AIKIN AND JOHN CASEY. (2022). Straw Man Arguments: A Study in Fallacy Theory. London: Bloomsbury: pp. i-vi. 1-240. This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in phil- osophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic di- alogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the atten- tion it deserves as a rhetorical device. The authors propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms, and not only the one that is usually suggested: the straw man, the weak man and the hollow man. Moreover, they demonstrate that straw manning is unique among fallacies as it has no particular logical form in itself, because it is an instance of inap- propriate meta-argument, or argument about arguments. They dis- cuss the importance of the onlooking audience to the successful de- ployment of the straw man, reasoning that the existence of an audi- ence complicates the dialectical boundaries of argument. 150 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. STEVE OSWALD, MARCIN LEWIŃSKI, SARA GRECO, SERENA VILLATA (Eds.). (2022). The Pandemic of Argumentation. Argu- mentation Library, Vol 43. Cham Switzerland: Springer: pp. i-vi. 1- 371. This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the cur- rent COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinfor- mation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumenta- tion theory is uniquely placed to understand and account for the challenges of public reason as expressed through argumentative dis- course. The book thus focuses on the extent to which the forms, norms and functions of public argumentation have changed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This question is investigated along the three main research lines of the COST Action project CA 17132: European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis (APPLY): descriptive, normative, and prescriptive. DALE HAMPLE (Ed.) (2021) Local Theories of Argument. New York: Routledge: pp. 1-558. Argumentation is often understood as a coherent set of Western the- ories, birthed in Athens and developing throughout the Roman pe- riod, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment and Renaissance, and into the present century. Ideas have been nuanced, developed, and re- vised, but still the outline of argumentation theory has been recog- nizable for centuries, or so it has seemed to Western scholars. The 2019 Alta Conference on Argumentation (co-sponsored by the Na- tional Communication Association and the American Forensic As- sociation) aimed to question the generality of these intellectual tra- ditions. This resulting collection of essays deals with the possibility of hav- ing local theories of argument – local to a particular time, a partic- ular kind of issue, a particular place, or a particular culture. Many Books Received 151 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. of the papers argue for reconsidering basic ideas about arguing to represent the uniqueness of some moment or location of discourse. LEAL, FERNANDO AND HUBERT MARRAUD (2022) How Philoso- phers Argue: An Adversarial Collaboration on the Russell-- Copleston Debate (ARGA volume 41). Springer. Argumentation Li- brary Book Series. Pp. xiii + 188. This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God, providing an introduction justifying the choice of text and a transcript of the debate. In Part I the argumentative process is analysed by means of the ideal model of critical discussion. It highlights questions raised over and beyond that of whether God exists. Many questions are left in the air; a few others give rise to sundry sub-discussions or meta-dia- logues. Part II provides the theoretical framework of argument dia- lectic: argument structures are identified by means of punctuation marks, argumentative connectors and operators, revealing the argu- mentative exchange as the collaborative construction of a macro-ar- gument that is both a joint product of the arguers and a complex structure representing the dialectical relationships between the indi- vidual arguments. Finally, the complementarity of the two ap- proaches is addressed. Thus, the book serves as an exercise in adver- sarial collaboration. FINOCCHIARO, MAURICE A. (2019). On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair. Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2019. Pp. ix+289. This book is a synthetic, comprehensive, and accessible account of the Galileo affair: the Inquisition proceedings of his trial, its intel- lectual issues, its scientific and philosophical background, the his- 152 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. torical aftermath up to our day, and the philosophical lessons involv- ing the relationship between science and religion and the nature of rationality, scientific method, and critical thinking. The key thesis is that Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church because of his critical reasoning. His alleged crime was committed by publishing a book that defended Copernicus’s theory of the earth’s motion, which was controversial at that time and which the Church regarded as false and contrary to Scripture. The key point is that Galileo not only ex- plained all arguments on both sides, but took the liberty of evaluating their merits; and it turned out that the arguments favoring the earth’s motion, although not completely conclusive, were much stronger that those against it. FINOCCHIARO, MAURICE A. (2021). Science, Method, and Argu- ment in Galileo: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Essays. Pp. xxvi+475 (Argumentation Library, volume 4). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. This book is a collection of 24 essays, all but three previously pub- lished during the last 50 years. Their two-fold focus is argumentation and Galileo. That is, these essays are methodological and logical analyses of arguments such as the following: arguments by Galileo, about the physics of falling bodies and the astronomical theory of the earth’s motion; arguments by his critics and supporters, about his Inquisition trial; arguments by scholars aiming to understand and evaluate his scientific achievements and Inquisition trial; and com- parisons and contrasts of argumentation by Galileo and by other im- portant thinkers, such as Socrates, Giordano Bruno, Karl Marx, and his musicologist father Vincenzo Galilei. From the point of view of argumentation theory, the essays focus on concrete illustrations and clarifications of the following concepts and principles: interpretation vs. evaluation, simple vs. complex structure, meta-argumentation, fallacy, conductive argument, charity, open-mindedness, fair-mind- edness, and judiciousness. Books Received 153 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. AMOSSY, RUTH (2021) In Defense of Polemics. Pages ix + 166. Springer. Argumentation Library Book Series (ARGA volume 42). This book revisits the definition of polemical discourse and deals with its functions in the democratic sphere. It first examines theoret- ical questions concerning the management of disagreement in de- mocracy and the nature of polemical discourse. Next, it analyses case studies involving such issues as the place of women in the public space, illustrated by the case of the burqa in France and public con- troversy in the media on the exclusion of women from the public space. The book then explores reason, passion and violence in po- lemical discourse by means of cases involving confrontations be- tween secular and ultra-orthodox circles, controversies about the Mexican Wall and fierce discussions about stock-options, and bo- nuses in times of financial crisis. The book answers questions like: What is the social function of a confrontational management of dissent that does not primarily seek to achieve agreement? Is it just a sign of decadence, failure and pow- erlessness, or does it play a constructive role? HITCHCOCK, DAVID (2021) Definition: A Practical Guide to Con- structing and Evaluating Definitions of Terms. Pages x + 273. Wind- sor Studies in Argumentation. Definitions matter. They determine who can get married, when the organs of a “dead” person can be harvested for transplants, what counts as a planet, the unemployment rate, and more. Definition pro- poses criteria and guidelines for constructing and evaluating defini- tions, with reference to the definer’s basic purpose (reporting, stipu- lating, or advocating a meaning), the definition’s content (the kinds of words used and the information conveyed), and its form (any of 14 kinds). The proposals of criteria and guidelines implicitly address theoretical issues and are illustrated by definitions of 166 2 terms taken from many fields—terms such as ‘clock,’ ‘life,’ ‘planet,’ and ‘thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor.’ 154 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. Eemeren, Frans H. van (2020) Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding Clinical Argumentative Discourse. John Benjamins. This book discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how interactions between doctors and patients can be reconstructed as argumentative, what it means for doctors and patients to reasonably resolve a difference of opinion, what it implies to strive simultane- ously for reasonableness and effectiveness in clinical discourse, and when such efforts derail into fallaciousness. Of interest to all those who seek to improve their understanding of argumentation in a med- ical context—whether they are students, scholars of argumentation, or medical practitioners. HINTON, MARTIN (2021) Evaluating the Language of Argument. Springer. This book is concerned with the evaluation of natural argumentative discourse and the language in which arguments are expressed. It in- troduces a systematic procedure for the analysis and assessment of arguments, which is designed to be a practical tool, and may be con- sidered a pseudo-algorithm for argument evaluation. The first half lays the theoretical groundwork, with a thorough examination of both the nature of language and the nature of argument. The second half begins with a detailed discussion of the concept of fallacy. A new way of looking at fallacies emerges, and it is that conception, together with the understanding of the nature of argumentation, which ultimately provides the support for the Comprehensive As- sessment Procedure for Natural Argumentation. Books Received 155 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. TINDALE, CHRISTOPHER W. (2021) The Anthropology of Argu- ment: Cultural Foundations of Rhetoric and Reason. Routledge. This book explores the experience of argument across cultures, de- veloping an anthropological perspective on argumentation. It shifts the focus away from the propositional element of arguments onto how they emerge from the experiences of peoples with diverse backgrounds, demonstrating how argumentation can be understood as a gathering place of ideas and styles. Confronting the limitations of the Western tradition of logic and searching out the argumenta- tive roles of place, orality, myth, narrative, and audience, it exam- ines the nature of multi-modal argumentation. AIKIN, SCOTT AND ROBERT TALISSE (2020) Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life. Polity Books. The authors show that disagreeing civilly, even with your sworn en- emies, is a crucial part of democracy. Rejecting the popular view that civility requires a polite and concessive attitude, they argue that our biggest challenge is not remaining calm in the face of an oppo- nent, but rather ensuring that our political arguments actually ad- dress those on the opposing side. Too often politicians and pundits merely simulate political debate, offering carefully structured cari- catures of their opponents. These simulations mimic political argu- ment in a way designed to convince citizens that those with whom they disagree are not worth talking to. BLAIR, ANTHONY J. AND CHRISTOPHER W. TINDALE (Eds.). (2020) Rigour and Reason: Essays in Honour of Hans Vilhelm Han- sen. Windsor Studies in Argumentation. This book collects essays in recognition of the career of Professor Hansen, whose contributions to the fields of informal logic and argument theory have earned the 156 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. gratitude of his colleagues. Essays by scholars as John Woods, Douglas Walton, Trudy Govier, Derek Allen, Jean Goodwin, James B. Freeman, David Hitchcock, Christopher Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Patrick Bondy, Daniel Cohen, Marcin Lewiński, Yun Xie, Leo Groarke, Bruce Russell, and Christian Kock cover a range of topics in the history and theory of informal logic and argumentation theory. JULIO CABRERA (2019) Introduction to a Negative Approach Argu- mentation: Towards a New Ethic for Philosophical Debate. New- castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp.200. ISBN: 978-1-52753968-6. This work deals with argumentation in philosophy. In the “affirma- tive” view of argumentation, each party thinks it is right while all other positions are wrong; argumentation is seen as guided by a set of rules that should lead to the resolution of the dispute in favor of one party. This book advances a critique of such an approach, pro- posing instead a negative one, the central idea of which is that each party organizes the elements of the problem concerning the defini- tion of terms, the assumptions to be accepted, and the types of log- ical resources being used. The negative approach attempts to mod- ify the ethics of philosophical discussions, moving towards plural- ism, a diversity of perspectives, and the capacity to adopt a pano- ramic view where one’s own posture appears only as one among others. The book will particularly appeal to graduate and postgrad- uate students in philosophy, psychology, pedagogy and communi- cation, as well as the general reader interested in philosophy. Books Received 157 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. HANSEN, HANS V., FRED KAUFFELD, AND LILIAN BERMEJO- LUQUE (Eds.). (2019). Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law. University of Alabama Press: pp. 320. ISBN: 978-0-8173-2017-1 In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are pre- sumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explic- itly recognized in legal theory since the middle ages, but their per- vasive presence in all forms of argumentation and in inquiries be- yond the law—including politics, science, religion, philosophy, and interpersonal communication—have been the object of study since the nineteenth century. However, the documents and essays central to any discussion of pre- sumptions and burdens of proof as devices of argumentation are scattered across a variety of remote sources in rhetoric, law, and philosophy. Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law brings together for the first time key texts relating to the history of the theory of presumptions along with contemporary studies that identify and give insight into the issues facing students and scholars today. RIGOTTI, EDDO AND SARA GRECO (2019). Inference in Argumen- tation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer: pp. xxx, 325. ISBN13: 9783030-04566-1. This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, con- sidering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci. The authors propose and illustrate a model for the analysis of the standpoint-argument connection, called Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT). A prominent feature of the AMT is that it distin- guishes, within each and every single argumentation, between an 158 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. inferential-procedural component, on which the reasoning process is based; and a material-contextual component, which anchors the argument in the interlocutors’ cultural and factual common ground. The AMT explains how these components differ and how they are intertwined within each single argument. This model is introduced in Part II of the book, following a careful reconstruction of the enor- mously rich tradition of studies on inference in argumentation, from the antiquity to contemporary authors, without neglecting medieval and post-medieval contributions. The AMT is a contemporary model grounded in a dialogue with such tradition, whose crucial as- pects are illuminated in this book. AL-JUWAID, WALEED RIDHA HAMMOODI (2019) The Pragmatics of Cogent Argumentation in British and American Political De- bates. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: pp. 432. Since the time of Aristotle, various approaches have been offered to tackle what makes language stronger. Some approaches have fo- cused on rhetoric, while others have given attention to logic. Still others have concentrated on dialectics. This book takes into account a full-fledged comprehensive model of analysis that brings these three perspectives together. Throughout, it investigates the presence of pragmatic criteria and the utilization of pragmatic strategies that make language stronger in the context of argumentation. Cogent ar- gumentation is a pragmatic communicative interactional process that goes through stages and is regarded as a communicative ex- change of arguments. The cogency of these arguments is attained according to the availability of pragmatic criteria and the utilization of pragmatic strategies and determined throughout the whole pro- cess of argumentation. Books Received 159 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the fields of pragmatics, communication, and politics, and will widen their un- derstanding of the pragmatic structure and criteria which constitute cogent argumentation. BLAIR, ANTHONY J. (Ed.). (2019) Studies in Critical Thinking. Windsor Studies in Argumentation. Critical thinking deserves both imaginative teaching and serious theoretical attention. Studies in Critical Thinking assembles an all- star cast to serve both. Besides five exercises teachers may copy or adapt, by Derek Allen, Tracy Bowell, Justine Kingsbury, Jan Al- bert van Laar, Sharon Bailin and Mark Battersby, there are chapters on: what critical thinking is, the nature of argument, definition, us- ing the web, evaluation, argument schemes, abduction, generaliz- ing, fallaciousness, logic and critical thinking, computer-aided ar- gument mapping, and more—by such illustrious scholars as John Woods, Douglas Walton, Sally Jackson, Dale Hample, Robert En- nis, Beth Innocenti, David Hitchcock, Christopher Tindale, G. C. Goddu, Alec Fisher, Michael Scriven, Martin Davies, Ashley Bar- nett, Tim van Gelder and Mark Battersby. BATTERSBY, MATTERSBY, MARK AND BAILIN, SHARON (2018) In- quiry: A New Paradigm for Critical Thinking. Windsor Studies in Argumentation. This volume reflects the development and theoretical foundation of a new paradigm for critical thinking based on inquiry. The field of critical thinking, as manifested in the Informal Logic movement, developed primarily as a response to the inadequacies of formalism to represent actual argumentative practice and to provide useful ar- gumentative skills to students. Because of this, the primary focus of the field has been on informal arguments rather than formal rea- soning. Yet the formalist history of the field is still evident in its 160 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. emphasis, with respect to both theory and pedagogy, on the struc- ture and evaluation of individual, de-contextualized arguments. It is our view that such a view of critical thinking is excessively nar- row and limited, failing to provide an understanding of argumenta- tion as largely a matter of comparative evaluation of a variety of contending positions and arguments with the goal of reaching a rea- soned judgment on an issue. As a consequence, traditional critical thinking instruction is problematic in failing to provide the reason- ing skills that students need in order to accomplish this goal. In- stead, the goal of critical thinking instruction has been seen largely as a defensive one: of learning to not fall prey to invalid, inade- quate, or fallacious arguments. EEMEREN, FRANS H. VAN (2018) Argumentation Theory: A Pragma Dialectical Perspective. Argumentation Library series. Springer: pp. 199. The book offers a compact but comprehensive introductory over- view of the crucial components of argumentation theory. In pre- senting this overview, argumentation is consistently approached from a pragma-dialectical perspective by viewing it pragmatically as a goal directed communicative activity and dialectically as part of a regulated critical exchange aimed at resolving a difference of opinion. The book also systematically explains how the constitu- tive parts of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation hang together. The following topics are discussed: (1) argumentation theory as a discipline; (2) the meta-theoretical principles of pragma-dialectics; (3) the model of a critical discussion aimed at resolving a difference of opinion; (4) fallacies as violations of a code of conduct for reasonable argumentative discourse; (5) de- scriptive research of argumentative reality; (6) analysis as theoret- ically-motivated reconstruction; (7) strategic manoeuvring aimed at combining achieving effectiveness with maintaining reasonable- ness; (8) the conventionalization of argumentative practices; (9) Books Received 161 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. prototypical argumentative patterns; (10) pragma-dialectics amidst other approaches. HAMPLE, DALE (2018) Interpersonal Arguing. New York: Peter Lang: pp. 301. This book is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of rea- sons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and in- ternational differences in how people understand interpersonal ar- guing. This is a thorough survey of the leading issues involved in understanding how people argue with one another. MOHAMMED, DIMA (2018) Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time: Accusation of Inconsistency in Response to Criti- cism. John Benjamins Publishing Company. When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an incon- sistency in the critic’s position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence, but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical voice and obstructs accountability. What distin- guishes constructive cases from disruptive ones? This is the ques- tion this book sets out to answer. The question is addressed by adopting an argumentative perspec- tive. Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time focuses on the turnabout employed by the British Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition. The turnabout is characterised as a particular way of strategic manoeuvring. The manoeuvring is ana- lysed and evaluated by combining pragmatic, dialectical and rhetor- 162 Books Received © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. ical insights with considerations from the realm of politics. The out- come is an account of the turnabout’s strategic functions and an as- sessment guide for evaluating its reasonableness. The book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of argumentation, discourse analysis, communication and rhetoric. Books reviewed since 2014 (in order of appearance): John Woods, Truth in Fiction: Rethinking its Logic. Springer, 2018, 239 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-72657-1. Frans H. van Eemeren Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialecti- cal Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. (Argumen- tation Library, vol. 33). Pp. xi + 199. ISBN: 978-3-319-95380- 9. Hitchcock, David. (2017). On Reasoning and Argument: Essays in Informal Logic and Critical Thinking. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Pp. xxvii, 553. Blair, J. A. (2012). Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers of J. Anthony Blair. Argumentation Library, Vol. 21. Dordrecht: Springer. Pp. xxi, 1-355. Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2013). “Meta-argumentation, An Ap- proach to Logic and Argumentation Theory.” Studies in Logic, Logic and Argumentation, Vol. 42. London: College Publica- tions. Pp. vii, 1-279. Macagno, Fabrizio and Douglas Walton. (2014). Emotive Language in Argumentation. New York: Cambridge. Rubinelli, Sara and A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.). (2012). “Argumentation and Health.” Special issue of the jour- nal Argumentation in Context, Vol. 1, No. 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vi, 1-142. Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (Eds.). (2015). Reflections on Theoretical Issues in Argumentation Theory. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Pp. xiv, 1-293. Amossy, Ruth. (2014). Apologie de la polémique. Paris: Presses uni- versitaires de France. Coll. L’interogation philosophique. Pp. 1240. Books Received 163 © Informal Logic, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023), pp. 147-163. Gilbert, Michael A. (2014). Arguing with People. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. Pp. 1-12, front matter; 13-137. Campbell, John Angus, Antonio de Velasco and David Henry (Eds.). (2016). Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy: The Living Art of Michael C. Leff. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. Pp. xxiv, 1-481. Tindale, Christopher W. (2015). The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii, 1-244.