Argument, inference, and dialectic : collected papers on informal logic
It also revisits the ideas about dialectic that occupied my first in light of later developments in my thinking but also re paper, reworking them emphasizing themes about which I've tended to remain silent in the last few years.
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Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION by Hans Vilh. Hansen i
1. Overview of Chapters 1-12, ix
2. Retrospective: Logic, Dialectic and the Practice of Rational Criticism, xx
Chapter 1: DIALECTIC AND THE STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENT
1. Introduction, I
2. Presumption and Burden of Proof, 2
3. Do there have to be "objective standards" for assessing arguments?, 4
4. Conclusion, 8
Chapter 2: GENERALIZING THE NOTION OF ARGUMENT
1 Doxastic attitudes other than belief, 11
2. Propositional attitudes other than doxastic attitudes, 15
3. Nonpropositional objects of conscious attitudes, 17
4. Conclusion: further questions, 19
Chapter 3: LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY AND ARGUMENT APPRAISAL 2
1. Introduction, 21
2. Appraising premisses, 23
3. Suitability of inferential link, 26
4 Conclusion, 31
Chapter 4: THE RELATION OF ARGUMENT TO INFERENCE
1. Arguments and inferences, 32
2. Inference, 39
3. Logical pragmatics, argumentation theory and the evaluation
of inference, 43
Chapter 5: INCONSISTENCY, RATIONALITY AND RELATIVISM
1. Why is inconsistency a fault?, 46
2. How serious a fault is inconsistency?, 49
3. When is it reasonable to tolerate inconsistency?, 51
4. What about relativism?, 54
Chapter 6: POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC
Chapter 7: LOGIC, COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
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Chapter 8: LOGIC, COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY REVISITED 7:
1. Introduction, 73
2. Understanding a domain as necessary background of any reasoning, 74
3. Is the understanding of a domain susceptible of propositional or sentential
representation?, 75
4. Understanding, coherence and rationality, 78
Chapter 9: LOGICAL FORM AND THE LINK BETWEEN
PREMISSES AND CONCLUSION 8
1. Preliminaries, 81
2. Semantic entailments, 85
3. Inductive inferences and Goodman's paradox, 89
4. The effect of pragmatic considerations on the validity of inductive
generalization, 95
5. Conclusion, 96
Chapter 10: ARGUMENT SCHEMES AND THE EVALUATION
OF PRESUMPTIVE REASONING 9
1. In what sense does presumptive reasoning/argument
constitute a sui generis class?, 98
2. Are there normative argument schemes? 100
Chapter 11: PRESUMPTION AND ARGUMENT SCHEMES 1 (
1. Presumptive reasoning, 105
2. Argument schemes, 108
3. Do argument schemes have normative force?, 109
4. What is the point of identifying argument schemes?, 111
Chapter 12: COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE OF RATIONAL
CRITICISM 1
1. Cognitive science at the extremes, 113
2. What if the eliminativists are right?, 117
Chapter 13: LOGIC, DIALECTIC AND THE PRACTICE
OF RATIONAL CRITICISM 1
i. Introduction, 126
2. The nature of the undertaking to which these papers are devoted, 128
3. Revisiting "Dialectic and the Structure of Argument"
the
role of dialectic, 130
4. Revisiting "Dialectic and the Structure of Argument",
relativism 134
5. Conclusion, 140
REFERENCES 1
INDEX 1
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