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  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Emotive Language in Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno ...
    This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between emotions, persuasion and meaning, and focusing on the implicit dimension of the use of a word and its dialectical effects. It offers a method for evaluating the persuasive and manipulative uses of emotive language in ordinary ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Methods of Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and business. The best way to learn it is to try it out on real instances of arguments found in everyday conversational exchanges and legal argumentation. The introductory chapter of this book gives a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Abductive Reasoning

    by Mr. Douglas Walton ...
    A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidenceExamines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Critical Reasoning and Argumentation
    Fundamentals 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. Illustrating the most common kinds of arguments, the book also ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Ad Hominem Arguments

    by Mr. Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourseIn the 1860s, northern newspapers attacked Abraham Lincoln's policies by attacking his character, using the terms "drunk," "baboon," "too slow," "foolish," and "dishonest." Steadily on the increase in political argumentation since then, the argumentum ad hominem, or personal attack argument, has now been carefully refined as an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Burden of Proof, Presumption and Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    The notion of burden of proof and its companion notion of presumption are central to argumentation studies. This book argues that we can learn a lot from how the courts have developed procedures over the years for allocating and reasoning with presumptions and burdens of proof, and from how artificial intelligence has built precise formal and computational systems to represent this kind of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Statutory Interpretation

    Pragmatics and Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno, Giovanni Sartor ...
    Statutory interpretation involves the reconstruction of the meaning of a legal statement when it cannot be considered as accepted or granted. This phenomenon needs to be considered not only from the legal and linguistic perspective, but also from the argumentative one - which focuses on the strategies for defending a controversial or doubtful viewpoint. This book draws upon linguistics, legal ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

    An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

    by Hans Vilhelm Hansen, James Crosswhite, Richard Gaskins, David Godden, G. Thomas Goodnight, Hanns Hohmann, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Prof. James B. Freeman0, Mr. Douglas Walton1, Mr. Fred J. Kauffeld4, Frans H. van Eemeren5 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proofIn the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explicitly ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not appear to have structures of the kind traditionally identified with deductive and inductive reasoning, but are extremely common and are often called ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Historical Foundations of Informal Logic

    by Douglas Walton, Alan Brinton ...
    Series series Avebury Series in Philosophy
    In just the last twenty years there has arisen a strong interest, especially among teachers of logic at the universities, in teaching techniques of applied logical reasoning and critical thinking. Many universities are now stressing these skills at an introductory level, and to meet the need, informal logic has begun to form and grow as a discipline in its own right. Like all subjects, it helps us ... Read more

    $79.99 USD