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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Concept of Argument
    sub title: A Philosophical Foundation
  name:
    name part: Wohlrapp, Harald R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: LXII, 443 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself. These are in particular the subjective imprint and the dynamics of argumentation. Their inclusion in a four-dimensional framework (subjective-objective, structural-procedural) and the focus on thesis validity allow for a more realistic view of our discourse practice. Exhaustive analyses of fascinating historical and contemporary arguments are provided. These range from Columbus' advocacy of the Western Passage to India, over the trial of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, to today’s highly charged controversies surrounding euthanasia and embryo research. Excavating foundational issues such as the purpose of argument itself (assent of an audience or critical examination of validity claims) and the contested role of argument as a generator of knowledge, the book culminates in a discussion of the relationship between rationality and reasonableness and criticizes the restrictions of ‘rational’ argument relying on fixed logical, economic or cultural criteria that in reality are mutable. Here, a true, open argument requires the infusion of Paul Lorenzen’s principle of ‘transsubjectivity’, which recognizes but transcends the partiality of the individual, and which can be seen in the pragmatic and expanding consensus that humanity can control itself to safeguard the future of a fragile, damaged world.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Research -- Chapter 3. Subjectivity -- Chapter 4. Basic Operations -- Chapter 5. Frame Structures -- Chapter 6. Dialogue Events -- Chapter 7. Validity -- Chapter 8. Argument Analysis -- Chapter 9. Reflexivity -- Chapter 10. Transsubjectivity.
  note: by Harald R. Wohlrapp.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  classification: BC1-199
  classification: 160
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4
  identifier: 9789401787628
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8762-8
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    record creation date: 140626
    record change date: 20151204181245.0
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