📚 Argumentation

Books with argumentation on their catalogue record, first published between 1899 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject argumentation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 296 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The uses of argument	Stephen Edelston Toulmin	1958	25
	Regulae ad directionem ingenii	René Descartes	1899	20
	Elements of Argument	Annette T. Rottenberg	1985	18
	Amusing Ourselves to Death	Neil Postman	1985	18
	The Power of Critical Thinking	Lewis Vaughn	2004	18
	Logic and contemporary rhetoric	Howard Kahane	1971	15
	With good reason	S. Morris Engel	1976	11
	Critical reasoning	J. B. Cederblom	1982	9
	Critical Thinking	Stuart Hanscomb	2016	8
	The art of deception	Nicholas Capaldi	1971	7
	Coalescent argumentation	Michael A. Gilbert	1997	7
	A systematic theory of argumentation	Frans H. van Eemeren	2003	7
	Practical reasoning in natural language	Stephen N. Thomas	1977	6
	Argument, the logic of the fallacies	John Hayden Woods	1982	6
	The logic of real arguments	Alec Fisher	1988	6
	Everything's an argument	Andrea A. Lunsford	1999	5
	Thinking from A to Z	Nigel Warburton	1996	4
	Critical thinking	Alec Fisher	1997	4
	Critical thinking	Tracy Bowell	2002	4
	Debunking Arguments in Ethics	Hanno Sauer	2018	4
	Crimes Against Logic	Jamie Whyte	2004	3
	Understanding arguments	Walter Sinnott-Armstrong	2004	3
	The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking	Noel Hendrickson	2008	3
	Strategic Argumentation in Parliamentary Debate	Eric J. Robertson	2009	3
	Reasoning and logic	Richard B. Angell	1964	2
	Communication and argument	Arne Naess	1966	2
	The new rhetoric	Chaim Perelman	1970	2
	How to argue	Crossley, David J.	1979	2
	Informal logic	Douglas N. Walton	1989	2
	Logique de l'argumentation	Pierre Blackburn	1989	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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