Douglas Walton (Ontario University of Windsor), Christopher Reed (University of Dundee), Fabrizio Macagno (Researcher / Universita Cattol Auxiliary Professor

Argumentation Schemes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a systematic analysis of major argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780521723749
• ISBN-10: 0521723744
• Artikelnr.: 24764788

Autorenporträt

Douglas Walton is professor of philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. The recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and honors, he is the author of over thirty books, most recently Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation, Media Argumentation, and Witness Testimony Evidence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Basic tools in the state of the art
2. Schemes for argument from analogy, classification and precedent
3. Knowledge-related, practical and other schemes
4. Arguments from generally accepted opinions, commitment and character
5. Causal argumentation schemes
6. Schemes and enthymemes
7. Attack, rebuttal and refutation
8. The history of schemes
9. A user's compendium of schemes
10. Refining the classification of schemes
11. Formalizing schemes
12. Schemes in computer systems.