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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Relevance in Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of argumentation in which an argument, or part of an argument, has been criticized as irrelevant. Walton's method is based on a new theory of ... Read more

    $57.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Scare Tactics

    Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. Such arguments come under the heading of the argumentum ad baculum, the `argument to the stick/club', traditionally treated as a fallacy in the logic textbooks. The new dialectical theory is based on case studies of many interesting examples of the use of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Argument Evaluation and Evidence

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a way that the solution is easily understood. The book progresses from confronting these problems and offering solutions to them, ... Read more

    $107.09 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

  • 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

  • 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