Responding to skeptics within higher education and critics without, James Crosswhite argues powerfully that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. A trained philosopher and director of a university-wide composition program, Crosswhite ch…
"Manifest Rationality: A Pragmatic Theory of Argument works through numerous theoretical issues that have been developing in informal logic over the past 20 years. Author Ralph H. Johnson defines a core position in the theory of argument from which these issues can be further ex…
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Bringing together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in an accessible style, this book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. It draws the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent…
Bringing together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in an accessible style, this book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. It draws the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent…
From Axiom to Dialogue: Philosophical Study of Logic and Argumentation (Grundlagen Der Kommunikation Und Kognition/Foundations of Co).
In "Disputers of the Tao", Angus C. Graham identifies the rationalistic and anti-rationalistic trends which culminated in the Later Mohists and the Taoist Chuang-tzu. He presents a full account of Later Mohist protologic, explores the nature of Chinese science, and examines the …
This book offers a new way of analysing styles of legal reasoning, between more "formal" and more "substantive" styles. It then demonstrates in detail the differences in legal reasoning, and in the legal systems as a whole, between England and America, suggesting that the Englis…
Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not appear to have structures of the …
Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not appear to have structures of the …
