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Giving Reasons
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order... more...
Informal Fallacies
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 173.00The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors, standards, or procedures should be adopted or appealed... more...
A Pragmatic Logic for Commands
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1980; US$ 102.00The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to. more...
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 98.00It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being ?irrelevant?. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics and relatedness logics, are juxtaposed against conversational... more...
The Priority of Events
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 104.00This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism. more...
Truth, Meaning, Experience
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 54.99This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Gupta argues that logical interdependence is legitimate, and that it provides a key to understanding a variety of topics of interest to... more...
The Myth of the Closed Mind
Open Court 2011; US$ 49.95?It?s like talking to a brick wall? and ?We?ll have to agree to disagree? are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument. It?s often claimed that some people?fundamentalists or fanatics?are indeed sealed off from rational criticism. And every month new pop... more...
Logik
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2012; US$ 4.84Hauptbeschreibung Wir können nicht nicht denken. Aber wie denken wir eigentlich? Dieser Ratgeber macht, spannend und verständlich, mit den Begriffen des Denkens und der Logik vertraut. Lernen Sie mehr über logisches Schließen und lassen Sie sich zum Weiterdenken inspirieren. Wer logisch denkt und argumentiert, kann Gesprächspartner wirkungsvoller... more...









