Relevance in argumentation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Walton, Douglas N.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, �2004.
• Θέματα: Logic.; Relevance (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY > Logic.; Logica.; Argumentatie.; Electronic books.

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 a criticism has been mad...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Examples of Irrelevant Arguments
• The Exclusionary Function
• Irrelevance in a Political Debate
• Murder is a Horrible Crime
• Problems in Judging an Argument Irrelevant
• Material Relevance
• Other Fallacies of Irrelevance
• Irrelevance in Legal Argumentation
• The Straw Man Fallacy
• Relevance as Relative to a Discussion
• The Dialectical Nature of Relevance
• Historical Background
• Aristotle on Misconception of Refutation
• The Ancient Concept of Stasis
• Irrelevance and Digression
• William of Sherwood on Ignoratio Elenchi
• The Obligation Game
• The Port Royal Logic
• Isaac Watts's Logick
• Whately's Elements of Logic
• McCosh on Shifting Ground
• The Perspective of Schiller and Sidgwick
• Textbook Treatments of Irrelevance
• Minimalistic Aristotelian Accounts
• Problematic Cases
• The Dual Approach
• Damer: Further Subtleties of Relevance
• Johnson and Blair: Irrelevant Reason and Red Herring
• Govier: Probative Relevance
• Hurley: Another Variant of the Dual Approach
• Straw Man and Relevance
• The Current Predicament
• The Problem of Analyzing Relevance
• The Paradoxes
• Relevance and Conditionals
• Relevance Logic and Formal Relevance Systems
• Appeals to Emotion
• Apparent Relevance
• Pragmatic Conversational Failures
• Conversational Implicature
• Problems with the Gricean Approach
• Argument Diagramming
• Components of a Theory of Relevance
• The Dialectical Nature of Relevance
• Relevance in a Persuasion Dialogue
• Relevance in Information-Seeking Dialogue.