Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules /

• Main Authors: Eemeren, Frans van (Author), Garssen, Bart (Author), Meuffels, Bert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 16
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Applied linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.; Philosophy, general.; Applied Linguistics.

In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from th...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical Background and Organization of the Study
• Considerations Regarding the Design of the Study
• Ad Hominem Fallacies: An Exemplary Study
• The Confrontation Stage: The Freedom Rule
• The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend Rule (I)
• The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend (II)
• The Argumentation Stage: The Argument Scheme Rule
• The Concluding Stage: The Concluding Rule
• Conventional Validity of the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules.