ISBN:
9789400723634
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXI, 355p. 4 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Argumentation Library 21
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Logic
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Comparative linguistics
;
Literacy
;
Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
;
Logic
;
Comparative linguistics
;
Literacy
;
Argumentationstheorie
;
Logik
Abstract:
J. Anthony Blair is a prominent international figure in argumentation studies. He is among the originators of informal logic, an author of textbooks on the informal logic approach to argument analysis and evaluation and on critical thinking, and a founder and editor of the journal Informal Logic. Blair is widely recognized among the leaders in the field for contributing formative ideas to the argumentation literature of the last few decades. This selection of key works provides insights into the history of the field of argumentation theory and various related disciplines. It illuminates the ce
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Philosopher of Argument; Theoretical Threads; Master of the Field; Prophetic Voice; Gatekeeper; Contents; Part I Critical Thinking; Introduction; 1 Is There an Obligation to Reason Well; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Moral Obligation and Reasoning Well; 1.3 Two Arguments for the Obligation to Reason Well; 1.4 Some Objections Considered; 2 The Keegstra Affair: A Test Case for Critical Thinking; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Background; 2.3 What Is Wrong with Mr. Keegstra's Theory as a Historical Theory?; 2.4 What Is Wrong with Mr. Keegstra's Methodology of History?
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2.5 What Is Wrong with the Way Mr. Keegstra Taught History?2.6 What Can We Do?; 3 What Is Bias?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Bad and Avoidable Bias; 3.3 Technical Bias; 3.4 Unavoidable and Potentially Dangerous Bias; 3.5 Contingent but Neutral or Good Bias; 3.6 An Understanding of Bias; Postscript; Part II Informal Logic; Introduction; 4 Argument Management, Informal Logic and Critical Thinking; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Argument Management; 4.3 Illative Core Analysis and Evaluation; 4.4 What Is Informal Logic?; 4.5 Other Senses of 'Informal Logic'
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4.6 How Is Critical Thinking Related to Informal Logic?4.7 Conclusion; 5 What Is the Right Amount of Support for a Conclusion?; 5.1 Introduction: The Problem; 5.2 One Solution: Deductivism; 5.3 Another Solution: Pragma-Dialectical Theory; 5.4 The Solution? The Dialectical Community; 6 Premissary Relevance; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Premissary Relevance and Other Kinds of Relevance; 6.3 The Property of Premissary Relevance; 6.3.1 The Argument Condition; 6.3.2 The ''Actual Support'' Condition; 6.4 The Property of "Lending Support to"; 6.5 Some Implications of the Account
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6.6 Argument Schemes or Topoi6.7 Summary; 7 Premise Adequacy; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Argumentative Quarrels; 7.3 Argumentative Persuasion; 7.4 Hostile Advocacy; 7.5 Neutral Curiosity; 7.6 Refereeing; 7.7 Negotiation; 7.8 Rational Disagreement Resolution; 7.9 Conclusion; 8 Relevance, Acceptability and Sufficiency Today; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Relevance; 8.3 Acceptability; 8.4 Sufficiency; 8.5 Other Objections; 8.6 Conclusion; 9 The "Logic" of Informal Logic; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Review of the Accounts; 9.2.1 Wisdom's Reasoning by Parallels or Case-by-Case Reasoning; 9.2.2 Toulmin's Warrants
Description / Table of Contents:
9.2.3 Wellman''s ''Conductive'' Reasoning9.2.4 Rescher's Provisoed Assertion and Probative Reasoning; 9.2.5 Defeasible Reasoning; 9.2.6 Walton's Presumptive Reasoning and Presumptive Arguments; 9.3 Similarities and Differences; 9.3.1 ''Validity'' of the Illative Move Explicitly not Deductive or Inductive; 9.3.2 Reasoning vs. Argument; 9.3.3 Distinctive Logic?; 9.3.4 Restrictions on the Domain of Applicationof the Illative Move; 9.3.5 Legitimacy Defended; 9.3.6 Concept of Defeasibility Present; 9.3.7 Concept of Presumption Explicit; 9.3.8 Illative Move Seen Explicitly as Dialectical
Description / Table of Contents:
9.3.9 Test of a ''Good'' Illative Move
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2363-4
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