32: Logos is Synonymous with Logic, by Nancy Fox

Nancy Fox reads her chapter exploring the bad idea "Logos is Synonymous with Logic." It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Produced as always by Kyle Stedman (@kstedman).

Keywords: logic, logos, persuasive discourse, philosophy, rhetoric, rhetorical theory

Nancy Fox is a faculty member in the English Department at the University of West Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Rhetoric from the University of Washington, Seattle, and her dissertation is entitled American Athena: A Feminist Sophistic Analysis of the Discourses of Women Servicemembers. She is the recipient of the Andrew R. Hillen Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Fox has published poetry, essays, and a children’s book, as well as work in feminist studies, multimedia, and writing. Her subjects have ranged from analysis of the film The Kids Are All Right and Andy Warhol’s Dream America to a new discovery in the Mouse’s Tale in Alice in Wonderland. She lives on the Gulf Coast with her spouse and two children. (2021 bio)

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