Govier, Trudy. What’s Wrong with Slippery Slope Arguments?
1982 1982, Canadian journal of philosophy. 12(2): 303-316.
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Added by: Simon FoktContent: Govier distinguishes four kinds of slippery slope arguments - conceptual, precedential, causal and mixed - and argues that only the last kind are likely to ever be sound.
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Comment: Useful in teaching about fallacious arguments in general, and about moral arguments an popular discourse about such arguments in particular.