Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich, interdisciplinary area of research that can provide new methods related to evidence and reasoning in the area of law. Douglas Walton provides an introduction to basic concepts, tools and methods in argumentati[...]
Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones.[...]
This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation sche[...]
This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic, and rhetorical perspective.[...]
This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of examples.[...]
This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic, and rhetorical perspective.[...]
This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of examples.[...]
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, [...]
This text identifies 25 argumentation schemes for presumptive reasoning and marches a set of critical questions to each. These two elements are then used to evaluate a given argument in a particular case in relation to a context of dialogue in which the argument occurred.[...]