Douglas Walton

Argumentation Schemes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9780521897907
• ISBN-10: 0521897904
• Artikelnr.: 29338716

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.