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Logic Journal of the IGPL 5 (4):603-614 (1997)

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Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing about Doing.Christian Kock (ed.) - 2017 - Windsor: University of Windsor.details Christian Kock’s essays show the essential interconnectedness of practical reasoning, rhetoric and deliberative democracy. They constitute a unique contribution to argumentation theory that draws on – and criticizes – the work of philosophers, rhetoricians, political scientists and other argumentation theorists. It puts rhetoric in the service of modern democracies by drawing attention to the obligations of politicians to articulate arguments and objections that citizens can weigh against each other in their deliberations about possible courses of action. Download Export citation Bookmark 9 citations
Reasons.Larry Wright - 2019 - Topoi 38 (4):751-762.details The temptation to look for the “purely normative essence” of argument stems from the understandable ambition to distinguish rational persuasion from mere persuasion. But in seeking a purely normative notion of argument it is easy to overlook—or actually deny—that rational persuasion is a kind of persuasion. The burden of this essay is to show that the concept of reason from which our interest in argument derives can only exist and have normative force as a kind of persuasion, that is, as (...) something causal. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Reasoning and Explaining.Larry Wright - 2002 - Argumentation 16 (1):33-46.details When regimented in a certain natural way, the concepts of explanation and justification manifest a pattern of interrelations connected more or less systematically to their object. Besides its intrinsic interest, this pattern may give us some insight into the nature, source, and limits of the concept of argument. Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Is Practical Reasoning Presumptive?Christian Kock - 2007 - Informal Logic 27 (1):91-108.details Douglas Walton has done extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical reasoning. However, Walton’s attempt to model practical reasoning as presumptive is misguided. The notions of “inference” and of the burden of proof shifting back and forth between proponent and respondent are misleading and lead to counterintuitive consequences. Because the issue in practical reasoning is a proposal, not a proposition, there are, in the standard case, several perfectly good reasons on both sides simultaneously, which implies that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 11 citations
The informal logic of mathematical proof.Andrew Aberdein - 2006 - In Reuben Hersh (ed.), 18 Unconventional Essays About the Nature of Mathematics. Springer Verlag. pp. 56-70.details Informal logic is a method of argument analysis which is complementary to that of formal logic, providing for the pragmatic treatment of features of argumentation which cannot be reduced to logical form. The central claim of this paper is that a more nuanced understanding of mathematical proof and discovery may be achieved by paying attention to the aspects of mathematical argumentation which can be captured by informal, rather than formal, logic. Two accounts of argumentation are considered: the pioneering work of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 17 citations

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