Introduction
T. Edward Damer is an American philosopher and author.
Biography
Damer is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He has been on the Emory faculty since 1967. In 1991, he won the James A. David Faculty Recognition Award from the Emory alumni in recognition of his teaching.
Works
He is the author of Attacking Faulty Reasoning, a textbook on logical fallacies. The book defines and explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. It also gives specific suggestions about how to address or to "attack" each fallacy when it is encountered. The organization of the fallacies comes from the author’s own theories that have accumulated through years of research and study, which defines a fallacy as a violation of one of the five criteria of a good argument.