On Boring Books and Funny Fallacies

Doug Mangum has begun a contest to see who can find the most boring book title. I am not sure if I’ve thought of the best contender yet, but at the moment I’m inclined to go with this one: The Book. But I may yet come up with something better still, and so had better wait until I check whether we can enter more than once.

Jim Getz, Joel Watts, and others have already joined in on their own blogs, while Jim Spinti has livened things up by offering an attractive prize. Whatever the winner turns out to be, it presumably won’t be something from James Crossley’s library. Meanwhile, others are looking for significant books – which aren’t necessarily incompatible with their having boring titles. And Charles Halton points out a funny(ish) book description and a exam answer.

In other news, Darrell Pursiful and Marc Cortez point out Ed Feser’s list of neglected really informal fallacies, which include Post doc, ergo propter doc, red hair-ing, and question the begging.
Marc also shared a guide to communicating with academics:

And while Ken Pulliam, Steve Douglas and others have been discussing Matthew Flanagan’s views on genocide in the Old Testament, the one with the most creative title is probably Thom Stark’s: “Episode II: The Phantom Herring.”