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Product Review Summary: Qualified Overview on Logic Yet with Religious Agenda Come Let Us Reason is a complete overview of introductory logic, its practical uses, and its impact on everyday life. Included are sections on the methodology of scientific study, an outline of introductory probability, and an in depth look at fallacies.
Geisler and Brooks convey the material in a lucid and efficient manner assuring the content is easy to understand. The book is weakened by a slight bias toward religious views that tends to disrupt the flow of the material if your intent is to learn only of logic. Religion as a premise requires elements of faith, which has its place, yet in a book on logic it creates a clear contradiction and does not feel apposite when viewed with objectivity.
Although qualified and wide-ranging, I recommend reading a book on logic that carries no agenda. Better reading options are "With Good Reason" by S. Morris Engel and "A Rulebook for Arguments" by Anthony Weston.
Product Review Summary: Highly Technical, For Serious Learners Only If you don't have time to study, think through and review the lessons and do the "homework" at the end of each chapter, this book is going to be painful and easily out of control, by which I mean you will probably be lost unless you keep track of the materials covered in the previous chapters. Though I completed reading the entire book, I was only able to keep up with the first few chapters, reviewing and doing the exercise, and they are not easy. If I were to grade myself, I believe I barely got a C perhaps because I wasn't serious enough since I wasn't using this book in a more disciplined classroom environment. I wish I did. With this said, I have to say Geisler did an excellent job. This is an intro to logic with Christian overtone, a solid foundation for rational apologetics.
Product Review Summary: Bud-wiser This here kind of book reading made my brain hurt so I drank some more beer.
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I thought I should lighten up the psychobabble, I hope you smiled.
Product Review Summary: Really thorough but accessible. Geisler covers a good bit of ground in his intro to logic, but he's such a good logician AND good communicator, he makes it highly graspable (which may not be a word...no, it is, I checked.)
Of course, this is written from a Christian perspective, so it's not likely to appeal to some philosophy students, totally cynical and agnostic by the time they take their logic class. But anyone who's familiar with Geisler knows he's a dang walking-talking-debating-master of logic, so this really should work for anyone.
Product Review Summary: Great Intro to Logical Thinking from Christian Perspective This book is not meant for casual reading (you have to think to understand this one), but it can help enlighten the casual reader (who does not want to study) if he/she skims through the first 90 pages (which require some study of terms and differences)and then coasts through the rest. Geisler and Brooks are Christian thinkers who understand thinking and logic, and they present the major components of logical thinking in a Christian context.
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The authors explain syllogisms and differentiate between a valid conclusion and an invalid conclusion. They also distinguish validity from actual truth (valid conclusions are not always actually true in reality; they are merely logically based on the premises presented). That's the stuff addressed in the first 90 pages.
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But the best part (and most enjoyable for me)began with chapter 6, "Informal Fallacies."Â This section was lighter reading. Since this is an election year, it would be a study in itself to compare political commentaries and supposed answers to questions with the logic presented in this volume!Â
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Since the authors are serious students of Scripture and Geisler is a celebrated Theologian, most of their examples come from familiar Bible texts or theological issues. Although I have stronger convictions about Sovereign Grace than do the authors, I really found their examples useful in the realm of hermenutics (Bible interpretation). They are solid defenders of an inerrant Bible and ethical interpretation.
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If you want to brush up your thinking skills, this might be a good place to start. "Fit Bodies, Fat Minds" by Os Guiness persuades us that the use of the mind has been neglected in evangelical communities, and Geisler and Brooks have written a work to help properly activate those little grey cells. Not really an easy read, and not for everyone, but a meaningful mind stretcher.
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