Bad Moves

Bad Moves was a series written by philosopher Julian Baggini detailing the various ways in which arguments are often made persuasively but badly. It formed the basis of a book, The Duck that Won the Lottery and 99 Other Bad Arguments, which has now been published by Granta in the UK, and will be published by Plume in the US soon. See Bad Arguments.

• The innocent have nothing to fear
• Motivation speculation
• Category Mistakes
• It worked for me…
• Contorting to balance
• Don't You Look Pretty Today
• Mood music
• Percipi est esse
• Scare-mongering
• Bold assertion
• It didn’t work then, so…
• Fallacy of equivocation
• Partial defence = support
• High redefinition
• The gambler's fallacy
• How else do you explain it?
• It's a free country
• Tu quoque
• Ought without can
• Genetic fallacies

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