As seen in the OJ Simpson criminal trial, arguing can be both noncooperative and normatively good.
I give an account of the force of the appeal to authority, based on the sophisticated rhetorical practice of ancient Rome's greatest orator, Cicero.
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.
I lay out the basic working principles of a normative pragmatic approach to argumentation.
Goodwin, Jean. (2011). Accounting for the force of the appeal to authority. In F. Zenker (Ed.), Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), May 18-21, 2011. Windsor, ON . As appeals to expert authority shift from “fallacies” to “argument schemes,” argumentation […]
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