Sybil asks Perry Mason to help her sour the real estate deal and win back her errant spouse. Unfortunately a blackmailer gets wind of the scheme and murder takes place. Score: 5. By necessity or artistic license or possibly just ego changes are often made by the filmmakers—many of them ineffective or even detrimental. This book focuses on the screen adaptations of 65 famous mysteries and examines how the filmmakers either succeeded or failed in the telling of the story.
We witness the interplay between common morality and legal correctness; sometimes following one violates the other. The idea for The Good Wife came from the recurring news drama of wives standing by their husbands when scandal breaks: the wives of Bill Clinton, Elliott Spitzer, and John Edwards. Searle contributes his keynote essay and his engaging replies to the other contributions. No true intellectual would hate this book. Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal?
Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it? For as long as people have been discussing, conversing, persuading, advocating, proselytizing, pontificating, or otherwise stating their case, their arguments have been vulnerable to false assumptions and faulty reasoning.
Drawing upon a long history of logical falsehoods and philosophical flubs, Bad Arguments demonstrates how misguided arguments come to be, and what we can do to detect them in the rhetoric of others and avoid using them ourselves. In this clear and concise guide to good arguments gone bad, Robert Arp, Steven Barbone, and Michael Bruce take readers through of the most infamous fallacies in Western philosophy, identifying the most common missteps, pitfalls, and dead-ends of arguments gone awry.
Whether an instance of sunk costs, is ought, affirming the consequent, moving the goal post, begging the question, or the ever-popular slippery slope, each fallacy engages with examples drawn from contemporary politics, economics, media, and popular culture. Further diagrams and tables supplement entries and contextualize common errors in logical reasoning.
At a time in our world when it is crucial to be able to identify and challenge rhetorical half-truths, this bookhelps readers to better understand flawed argumentation and develop logical literacy. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and a worthy companion to its sister volume Just the Arguments , Bad Arguments is an essential tool for undergraduate students and general readers looking to hone their critical thinking and rhetorical skills.
Learn about epistemology from The Brady Bunch. Explore Aristotle's Poetics by watching Television has grappled with a wide range of philosophical conundrums. According to the networks, it's the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe! So why not look to the small screen for answers to all of humanity's dilemmas? There's not a single issue discussed by the great thinkers of the past that hasn't been hashed out between commercials in shows like Mad Men and Leave It to Beaver.
So fix yourself a snack, settle into the couch, grab the remote Author : Thomas V.. Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. Gardner continued to practice law until , the year that saw the publication of his novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws , which introduced the character of Perry Mason. The huge success of the book convinced Gardner to give up the law and concentrate on his writing.
He was very prolific and had already produced over novelettes for the pulps prior to his Perry Mason success.
He also produced many non-fiction works and was especially interested in forensic medicine. He was one of the founding members of the Case Review Committee aka The Court of Last Resort which reopened cases where a person might have been wrongly convicted. In , his Perry Mason character was adapted for television and made Gardner a fortune over the ensuing years.
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