On Reasoning And Argument

Author : David Hitchcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319535623

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On Reasoning and Argument by David Hitchcock Pdf

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation. Among other things, the author:• develops an account of “material consequence” that permits evaluation of inferences without problematic postulation of unstated premises.• updates his recursive definition of argument that accommodates chaining and embedding of arguments and allows any type of illocutionary act to be a conclusion. • advances a general theory of relevance.• provides comprehensive frameworks for evaluating inferences in reasoning by analogy, means-end reasoning, and appeals to considerations or criteria.• argues that none of the forms of arguing ad hominem is a fallacy.• describes proven methods of teaching critical thinking effectively.

Author : Robert Gass,John Seiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351242479

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Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well by Robert Gass,John Seiter Pdf

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focus, the volume encourages readers to value civility when engaged in arguing and reasoning. Authors Gass and Seiter, renowned for their friendly writing style, include real-world examples, hypothetical dialogues, and editorial cartoons to invite readers in. The text includes a full chapter devoted to the ethics of argument, as well as content on refutation and formal logic. It is designed for students in argumentation and critical thinking courses in communication, philosophy, and psychology departments, and is suitable for students and general education courses across the curriculum.

Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107119048

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Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation by Douglas Walton Pdf

Practical argumentation is intelligent reasoning from an agent's goals and known circumstances , and from an action selected as a means, to arrive at a decision on what action to take. This book will appeal to a wide audience, from designers of multi-agent and robotics systems to social scientists.

Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521823196

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Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation by Douglas Walton Pdf

Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating the most common kinds of arguments, the book also explains how to analyze and evaluate each kind by critical questioning. Douglas Walton shows how arguments can be reasonable under the right dialogue conditions by using critical questions to evaluate them.

Author : Trudy Govier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110859249

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Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation by Trudy Govier Pdf

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Author : David Zarefsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107034716

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The Practice of Argumentation by David Zarefsky Pdf

Explores how we justify our beliefs - and try to influence those of others - both soundly and effectively.

Author : R.H. Johnson,H.J. Ohlbach,Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080532912

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Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference by R.H. Johnson,H.J. Ohlbach,Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods Pdf

The Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference is an authoritative reference work in a single volume, designed for the attention of senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in all the leading research areas concerned with the logic of practical argument and inference. After an introductory chapter, the role of standard logics is surveyed in two chapters. These chapters can serve as a mini-course for interested readers, in deductive and inductive logic, or as a refresher. Then follow two chapters of criticism; one the internal critique and the other the empirical critique. The first deals with objections to standard logics (as theories of argument and inference) arising from the research programme in philosophical logic. The second canvasses criticisms arising from work in cognitive and experimental psychology. The next five chapters deal with developments in dialogue logic, interrogative logic, informal logic, probability logic and artificial intelligence. The last chapter surveys formal approaches to practical reasoning and anticipates possible future developments. Taken as a whole the Handbook is a single-volume indication of the present state of the logic of argument and inference at its conceptual and theoretical best. Future editions will periodically incorporate significant new developments.

Author : Richard L. Epstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1938421051

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The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis by Richard L. Epstein Pdf

Presenting the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars, the text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context.

Author : David C. Wilson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015053389345

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A Guide to Good Reasoning by David C. Wilson Pdf

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134706129

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Arguing Well by John Shand Pdf

Arguing Well is a lucid introduction to the nature of good reasoning, how to test and construct successful arguments. It assumes no prior knowledge of logic or philosophy. The book includes an introduction to basic symbolic logic. Arguing Well introduces and explains: * The nature and importance of arguments * What to look for in deciding whether arguments succeed or fail * How to construct good arguments * How to make it more certain that we reason when we should The book is ideal for any student embarking on academic study where presenting arguments are what matters most; in fact, for all people who want to understand the nature and importance of good reasoning and awaken their ability to argue well.

Author : H. Prakken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401589758

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Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument by H. Prakken Pdf

This book is a revised and extended version of my PhD Thesis 'Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument', which I defended on 14 January 1993 at the Free University Amsterdam. The first five chapters of the thesis have remained almost completely unchanged but the other chapters have undergone considerable revision and expansion. Most importantly, I have replaced the formal argument-based system of the old Chapters 6, 7 and 8 with a revised and extended system, whieh I have developed during the last three years in collaboration with Giovanni Sartor. Apart from some technical improvements, the main additions to the old system are the enriehment of its language with a nonprovability operator, and the ability to formalise reasoning about preference criteria. Moreover, the new system has a very intuitive dialectieal form, as opposed to the rather unintuitive fixed-point appearance of the old system. Another important revision is the split of the old Chapter 9 into two new chapters. The old Section 9. 1 on related research has been updated and expanded into a whole chapter, while the rest of the old chapter is now in revised form in Chapter 10. This chapter also contains two new contributions, a detailed discussion of Gordon's Pleadings Game, and a general description of a multi-Iayered overall view on the structure of argu mentation, comprising a logieal, dialectical, procedural and strategie layer. Finally, in the revised conclusion I have paid more attention to the relevance of my investigations for legal philosophy and argumentation theory.

Author : Bradley Harris Dowden
Publisher : Bradley Dowden
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Critical thinking
ISBN : 0534176887

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Logical Reasoning by Bradley Harris Dowden Pdf

This book is designed to engage students' interest and promote their writing abilities while teaching them to think critically and creatively. Dowden takes an activist stance on critical thinking, asking students to create and revise arguments rather than simply recognizing and criticizing them. His book emphasizes inductive reasoning and the analysis of individual claims in the beginning, leaving deductive arguments for consideration later in the course.

Author : Giorgio Bongiovanni,Gerald Postema,Antonino Rotolo,Giovanni Sartor,Chiara Valentini,Douglas Walton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048194520

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Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation by Giorgio Bongiovanni,Gerald Postema,Antonino Rotolo,Giovanni Sartor,Chiara Valentini,Douglas Walton Pdf

This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the subject matter of the handbook divides in three parts. The first one introduces and discusses the basic concepts of practical reasoning. The second one discusses the general structures and procedures of reasoning and argumentation that are relevant to legal discourse. The third one looks at their instantiations and developments of these aspects of argumentation as they are put to work in the law, in different areas and applications of legal reasoning.

Author : Christopher W. Tindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139461849

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Fallacies and Argument Appraisal by Christopher W. Tindale Pdf

Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fallacies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained relevant since Aristotle, Christopher Tindale investigates central cases of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and how this has occurred. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and brief descriptions of fallacies, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize the dialectical and rhetorical contexts in which fallacies arise. This volume analyzes major fallacies through accessible, everyday examples. Critical questions are developed for each fallacy to help the student identify them and provide considered evaluations.

Author : Ralph H. Johnson
Publisher : University of Windsor
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780920233719

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The Rise of Informal Logic by Ralph H. Johnson Pdf

We are pleased to release this digital edition of Ralph Johnson’s The Rise of Informal Logic as Volume 2 in the series Windsor Studies in Argumentation. This edition is a reprint of the previous Vale Press edition with some minor corrections. We have decided to make this the second volume in the series because it is such a compelling account of the formation of informal logic as a discipline, written by one of the founders of the field. The book includes essential chapters on the history and development of informal logic. Other chapters are key reflections on the theoretical issues raised by the attempt to understand informal argument. Many of the papers were previously published in important journals. A number of them were co-authored with J. Anthony Blair. Three of them have appeared only in the present book.