Lucas Bracco - A World Of Fallacies (Prometheus, 2023) ***

I have always been a keen fan of formal and informal logic. Every single day, you can hear and read people with high functions in politics, goverment, industry or other influential places to say things are logically incorrect. When debating their points, they easily fall back on an ingroup vs outgroup position, or claiming that they have other views on society, even if these responses are beside the point, because my comment had nothing to do with the content of their utterances, but everything with the technical aspects of reasoning. 

Lists of all fallacies exist, on Wikipedia, or the Cognitive Bias Codex with its great visual representation. 

This little book is also of interest, with a lot of quotes from everyday life to explain why some statements and reasonings are biased or wrong. Many of the fallacies presented were familiar to me, so I assume the book is more addressed to people without prior knowledge, although I wonder if any of them would spend money on a book on the topic. Nevertheless, it's an nice introduction. 

I never understood why logic is not part of our education system, since it is essential for critical thinking in everyday life, for policy and for science. It appears so vital for the quality of our society and democracy.