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Actually existing rules for closing arguments
Arguing is unruly.
Theoretical pieties, Johnstone’s impiety, and ordinary views of argumentation
July 14, 2012
We teachers of argument have nothing to apologize for.
Argument has no function
July 14, 2012
Argument has no determinable function in the sense Walton needs, and even if it did, that function would not ground norms for argumentative practice.
The public sphere and the norms of transactional argument
July 13, 2012
Papers by Asen and Rehg get us halfway to an understanding of the activity of arguing in the public sphere.
One question, two answers
July 13, 2012
I lay out the basics of "design theory"--a/k/a the normative pragmatics of arguing, particularly in contrast to other approaches.
The noncooperative pragmatics of arguing
July 13, 2012
As seen in the OJ Simpson criminal trial, arguing can be both noncooperative and normatively good.
Johnstone’s still-unacknowledged contributions to contemporary argumentation theory
July 13, 2012
Given the pragmatic turn recently taken by argumentation studies, we owe renewed attention to Henry Johnstone's views on the primacy of process over product.
Comments on Scott Jacobs’ ‘Rhetoric and dialectic from the standpoint of normative pragmatics’
July 13, 2012
I lay out the basic working principles of a normative pragmatic approach to argumentation.
Good argumentation without resolution
July 13, 2012
A case study of the debate over US entry into the first Gulf War shows that there can be good argumentation that does not aim at resolution.
Pereman, adhering and conviction
July 13, 2012
Cite: Goodwin, Jean. “Perelman, Adhering and Convictions.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 28 (1995): 215-33. Abstract: Perelman’s theory of argumentation is based on a one-dimensional psychology of adherence: people stick to propositions, with various degrees of strength. This is inadequate to account for the rhetorical force of the convictions people commit themselves to–which become an aspect of their […]
July 14, 2012
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