The Death Of Argument

Author : J.H. Woods
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402027123

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The Death of Argument by J.H. Woods Pdf

The present work is a fair record of work I've done on the fallacies and related matters in the fifteen years since 1986. The book may be seen as a sequel to Fallacies: Selected papers 1972-1982, which I wrote with Douglas Walton, and which appeared in 1989 with Foris. This time I am on my own. Douglas Walton has, long since, found his own voice, as the saying has it; and so have I. Both of us greatly value the time we spent performing duets, but we also recognize the attractions of solo work. If I had to characterize the difference that has manifested itself in our later work, I would venture that Walton has strayed more, and I less, from what has come to be called the Woods-Walton Approach to the study of fallacies. Perhaps, on reflection "stray" is not the word for it, inasmuch as Walton's deviation from and my fidelity to the WWA are serious matters of methodological principle. The WWA was always conceived of as a way of handling the analysis of various kinds of fallacious argument or reasoning. It was a response to a particular challenge [Hamblin, 1970]. The challenge was that since logicians had allowed the investigation of fallacious reasoning to fall into disgraceful disarray, it was up to them to put things right. Accordingly, the WWA sought these repairs amidst the rich pluralisms of logic in the 1970s and beyond.

Author : J. H. Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401570647

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The Death of Argument by J. H. Woods Pdf

Author : Veritas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : UIUC:30112087927791

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A Brief Statement of the Argument for the Abolition of the Death Punishment by Veritas Pdf

Author : Ingemar Patrick Linden
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262543163

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The Case against Death by Ingemar Patrick Linden Pdf

A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension. Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We may be on the cusp of a new human condition where scientists seek to break through the arbitrarily set age limit of human existence to address aging as an illness that can be cured. The book, however, is not about the science and technology of life extension but whether we should want more life. For Linden, the answer is a loud and clear “yes.” The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture. Linden examines the views of major philosophical voices of the past, whom he calls “death’s ardent advocates.” These include the Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Lucretius, and Montaigne. All have taught what he calls “the Wise View,” namely, that we should not fear death. After setting out his case against death, Linden systematically examines each of the accepted arguments for death—that aging and death are natural, that death is harmless, that life is overrated, that living longer would be boring, and that death saves us from overpopulation. He concludes with a “dialogue concerning the badness of human mortality.” Though Linden acknowledges that The Case Against Death is a negative polemic, he also defends it as optimistic, in that the badness of death is a function of the goodness of life.

Author : John Asgill,Tresham Dames Gregg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385365384

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An Argument to Prove that Death is Not Obligatory on Christians by John Asgill,Tresham Dames Gregg Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Margaret Sheehy,Donna M. Scanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000471946

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Argument Writing as a Supplemental Literacy Intervention for At-Risk Youth by Margaret Sheehy,Donna M. Scanlon Pdf

This volume details the development and initial evaluation of a supplemental literacy course intended to support at-risk high school students in the US. Developed using design based research (DBR), the course combines argument writing and knowledge building literacy routines to support academic literacy development. Acknowledging the demand for US students to meet academic literacy standards that emphasize explanatory and argumentative writing, the text foregrounds knowledge building as key to effective writing development. Chapters trace the development and implementation of course literacy routines designed using DBR and use whole-class and individual case studies to demonstrate how informational reading, discussion, and argument writing become an activity system to support literacy development. Ultimately, the text has important implications for literacy course design, and the use of knowledge building analysis and DBR in research. The text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in academic literacy education, writing and composition, and secondary education more broadly. Those specifically interested in methodologies relating to classroom teaching and learning as well as argumentation and argument writing will also benefit from this book.

Author : Eugene G. Wanger
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781628952865

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Fighting the Death Penalty by Eugene G. Wanger Pdf

Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution—Eugene G. Wanger’s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist. His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti–death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.

Author : Clifford Irving
Publisher : cliffordirving.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Final Argument by Clifford Irving Pdf

Author : Maralee Harrell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262529273

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What Is the Argument? by Maralee Harrell Pdf

Exploring philosophy through detailed argument analyses of texts by philosophers from Plato to Strawson using a novel and transparent method of analysis. The best way to introduce students to philosophy and philosophical discourse is to have them read and wrestle with original sources. This textbook explores philosophy through detailed argument analyses of texts by philosophers from Plato to Strawson. It presents a novel and transparent method of analysis that will teach students not only how to understand and evaluate philosophers' arguments but also how to construct such arguments themselves. Students will learn to read a text and discover what the philosopher thinks, why the philosopher thinks it, and whether the supporting argument is good. Students learn argument analysis through argument diagrams, with color-coding of the argument's various elements—conclusion, claims, and “indicator phrases.” (An online “mini-course” in argument diagramming and argument diagramming software are both freely available online.) Each chapter ends with exercises and reading questions. After a general introduction to philosophy and logic and an explanation of argument analysis, the book presents selections from primary sources, arranged by topics that correspond to contemporary debates, with detailed analysis and evaluation. These topics include philosophy of religion, epistemology, theory of mind, free will and determinism, and ethics; authors include Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle, Fodor, Dennett, Searle, and others. What Is the Argument? not only introduces students to great philosophical thinkers, it also teaches them the essential skill of critical thinking.

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000012455942

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

Author : Harald R. Wohlrapp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401787628

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The Concept of Argument by Harald R. Wohlrapp Pdf

Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself. These are in particular the subjective imprint and the dynamics of argumentation. Their inclusion in a four-dimensional framework (subjective-objective, structural-procedural) and the focus on thesis validity allow for a more realistic view of our discourse practice. Exhaustive analyses of fascinating historical and contemporary arguments are provided. These range from Columbus’s advocacy of the Western Passage to India, over the trial of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, to today’s highly charged controversies surrounding euthanasia and embryo research. Excavating foundational issues such as the purpose of argument itself (assent of an audience or critical examination of validity claims) and the contested role of argument as a generator of knowledge, the book culminates in a discussion of the relationship between rationality and reasonableness and criticizes the restrictions of ‘rational’ argument relying on fixed logical, economic or cultural criteria that in reality are mutable. Here, a true, open argument requires the infusion of Paul Lorenzen’s principle of ‘transsubjectivity’, which recognizes but transcends the partiality of the individual and which can be seen in the pragmatic and expanding consensus that humanity can control itself to safeguard the future of a fragile, damaged world.

Author : John Owen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773561493

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The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen Pdf

Author : John Asgill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0428877435

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An Argument to Prove That Death Is Not Obligatory on Christians (Classic Reprint) by John Asgill Pdf

Excerpt from An Argument to Prove That Death Is Not Obligatory on Christians Ascill, john, an eccentric English litteratear, born about the middle of the 17th century. He studied for the bar, and at intervals during the whole of his checkered life transacted legal business in some form or other; but having early displayed a predilection for writing political pamphlets, he soon became involved, in spite of his clever ness, in serious pecuniary difficulties. Fortunatelv for him, Parlia ment had just passed an act (1699) for the resumption of forfeited estates in Ireland, and Commissioners were appointed to settle claims. A bright vision fiitted across the mind of the much-harassed man. He sailed for the sister isle, and found the whole country wrangling in lawsuits. His talents, and the favor of the Commissioners, secured to him a lucrative practice and he even acquired sufficient influence to obtain a seat in the Irish Parliament. Some time, however, before taking possession of his seat, Asgill had published a most extraordinary pamphlet, entitled 'an argument preeing that, according to the Covenant of Eternal Life re vealed in the Scriptures, man may be translated henee into that Eternal Life without passing th rough Death, Much to Asgill's surprise, the public flew into a rage against this absurd production; the Irish parliament voted it a blasphemous libel', and the astonished author was expelled from the House after four days. In 1705, Asgill returned to England, and enter ed the English Parliament as Member for Bramber, in Sussex. But the fame of his unlucky pamphlet haunted him perpetually, and at last proved a Nemesis; for the English House, to be not less virtuous than the Irish one, took up the treatise, condemned it to be burnt by the common hangman, as profane and blasphemous, and expelled Asgill on the 18th of December, 1707. After this, his circumstances rapidly grew worse, until at last he found something like peace in the King's Bench and the Fleet, between which two places his excursions were confined for the term of his natural life. Here he continued to practice professionally, and - for he never succeeded in overcoming this weakness - to indite innumerable pamphlets on political and theological topics. He died in November. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190469436

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The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols Pdf

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226231648

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The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws by Leo Strauss Pdf

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argument of the Laws step by step, and his vigorous defense of this dialogue's integrity in respect to the ideals of the Republic."—Cross Currents "The unique characteristics of this commentary on the Laws reflect the care and precision which were the marks of Professor Strauss's efforts to understand the complex thoughts of other men."—Allan D. Nelson, Canadian Journal of Political Science "Thorough and provocative, an important addition to Plato scholarship."—Library Journal "The major purpose of the commentary is to provide a reading of the dialogue which displays its structural arrangement and the continuity of the argument."—J. W. Dy, Bibliographical Bulletin of Philosophy "The reader of Strauss's book is indeed guided closely through the whole text."— M. J. Silverthorne, The Humanities Association Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago.