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A Rulebook for Argumentsby Anthony Weston
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 6.95A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer?translated into eight languages?remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. more...
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentationby Douglas Walton; Hans Hansen
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. more...
The Uses of Argumentby Stephen E. Toulmin
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00'In spite of initial criticisms from logicians and fellow philosophers, The Uses of Argument has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion to students of argumentation from all kinds of disciplinary background for more than forty years. ' Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam more...
Critical Reasoningby Anne Thomson
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 24.95This stimulating new introduction to reasoning will interest all those with a concern in improving their reasoning skills, whether at work or in the classroom and requires no specialist knowledge. more...
Practical Conflictsby Peter Baumann; Monika Betzler
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 28.00In this collection a distinguished roster of philosophers analyse the diverse forms of practical conflict. Their aim is to establish an understanding of the sources of these conflicts, investigate their challenge to an adequate conception of practical reasoning, and to assess the degree to which that challenge can be met. more...
Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decisionby Robert Audi
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 37.95Provides an overview of the influential theories of practical reasoning found in Aristotle, Hume and Kant. This book examines practical reasoning in important topics in moral psychology - weakness of will, self-deception, rationalization and more. It is for those interested in the role of reason in ethics or the nature of human action. more...
Reasoning Practicallyby Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 110.00These essays present research on the link between reasoning and practice. They cover issues raised by the move from thought to action, and represent an inquiry into the very nature of reason, reasoning and reasons, rationale, rationalization, and rationality. more...
Walking the Tightrope of Reasonby Robert J. Fogelin
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 18.95Robert Fogelin'se mediation on the paradox of logic and reasoning leads us through the history of ideas, lightly touching on the Greeks, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein, and its current form in the debates called "the culture wars". In the end, he says, knowledge is possible, if we adjust our sense of the limits of reason. more...
Arguing on the Toulmin Modelby David Hitchcock; Bart Verheij
Springer 2006; US$ 219.00Toulmin's model has been appropriated and adapted by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This book provides information on the Toulmin model and its appropriation. It talks about the developments in the theory of argument, typology of warrants, comprehensive theory of defeaters, and more. more...