The book tackles such issues as:
- reasoning and critical thinking;
- meaning and definition;
- clarifying meaning;
- reconstructing arguments;
- strategies for assessing arguments;
- assessing truth claims;
- assessing relevance;
- assessing adequacy;
- deductive reasoning;
- inductive reasoning;
- moral reasoning;
- arguing back;
- irrational techniques for persuasion;
- critiquing the media;
- writing and assessing argumentative essays; - paradoxes and puzzles;
- self-tests.
