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The pragmatic force of making reasons apparent
September 15, 2015
Goodwin Pragmatic ForceGoodwin, J., & Innocenti, B. (2016). The Pragmatic Force of Making Reasons Apparent. InD. Mohammed & M. Lewinski (Eds.), Argumentation and Reasoned Action (Vol. 2, pp. 449–462). College Publications. Making arguments makes reasons apparent. Sometimes those reasons may affect audiences. But over-emphasis on effects distracts from other things that making arguments accomplishes and thus […]
How to be a better functionalist
September 13, 2015
Goodwin, J. (2016). How to Be a Better Functionalist. In D. Mohammed & M. Lewinski (Eds.), Argumentation and Reasoned Action (Vol. 1, pp. 515–519). College Publications. Theorists have found it easy to derive norms for argumentation from asserted functions of argument. The work of Dima Mohammed has taken a big step forward in making function theories […]
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.
What if arguing is central?
July 13, 2012
What Smith taught, what Smith said he was teaching, and what my students want to learn: they all line up.
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.
What does arguing look like?
July 13, 2012
At first glance, arguing does look angry and futile. But on second view, it's more complicated.
We should be studying the norms of debate
July 13, 2012
Argumentation theorists and scholars in the forensic debate community should start talking again--about the norms of debate.
Jean Goodwin 
January 22, 2016
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