Argumentation Schemes - Softcover

Walton, Douglas; Reed, Christopher; Macagno, Fabrizio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521723744 ISBN 13: 9780521723749

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.

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About the Author

Douglas Walton is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor. The recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and honors, he is the author of over thirty books, most recently Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation, Media Argumentation, and Witness Testimony Evidence.

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D.UCSC, Milan, 2008) works as a researcher and invited auxiliary professor at theUniversidade Nova de Lisboa. He is author of more than 80 papers on definition, presupposition,argumentation schemes, and dialogue analysis published on major internationalpeer-reviewed journals such as Journal ofPragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics,Argumentation, and Philosophy and Rhetoric. His mostimportant publications include the books ArgumentationSchemes (CUP 2008), Emotive languagein argumentation (CUP 2014), and Interpretingstraw man argumentation (Springer 2017).  

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521723744
• ISBN 13: 9780521723749
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456