Alec Fisher is a British philosopher and educator associated with the University of East Anglia, specializing in critical thinking and informal logic. He is best known for developing accessible frameworks for analyzing real-world arguments and for his influential contributions to critical thinking pedagogy. His work engages central debates in the field, including whether critical thinking involves transferable general skills or only domain-specific reasoning.
Authored The Logic of Real Arguments (1988), a widely used text on analyzing naturally occurring arguments
Authored Critical Thinking: An Introduction (2001), a standard undergraduate critical thinking textbook
Contributed to debates on the generalizability of critical thinking skills against domain-specificity views (e.g., McPeck)
Advanced practical methods for argument mapping and evaluation outside formal logic
Associated with the University of East Anglia's Centre for Research in Critical Thinking