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Argument, Inference and Dialectic

Collected Papers on Informal Logic with an Introduction by Hans V. Hansen

By: Hans V. Hansen (Introduction by), Robert Pinto

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Hardcover | 31 May 2001

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Chapters 1-12 of this volume contain the papers on infonnal logic and argumentation that I've published and/or read at conferences over the last 17 years. These papers are reproduced here pretty much unchanged from their first appearance; it is my intention that their appearance here constitute a record of my positions and arguments at the time of their original publication or delivery. I've made minor changes in fonnat, in the style of references, etc., for the sake of consistency; I've also corrected typographical errors and the like. The only extensive changes in wording occur in the last few pages of Chapter 7, and were made only to enable the reader to see more clearly what I was getting at in my first attempt to write about the notion of coherence. Chapter 13 was written expressly for this volume. It looks retrospectively at the contents of the first 12 chapters and attempts to highlight the unifying themes that run through them. It also revisits the ideas about dialectic that occupied my first in light of later developments in my thinking but also re- paper, reworking them emphasizing themes about which I've tended to remain silent in the last few years.

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"These papers develop a distinct, plausible and coherent approach to the understanding and evaluation of argument. This approach sets out a much more comprehensive agenda than is common in the current literature. The papers link issues in the philosophy of argument (`informal logic, ' `theory of argumentation') with the mainstream of post-war Anglo-American philosophical work."
(David Hitchcock, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Overview of Chapters 1-12	p. ix
Retrospective: Logic, Dialectic and the Practice of Rational Criticism	p. xx
Dialectic and the Structure of Argument	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Presumption and Burden of Proof	p. 2
Do there have to be "objective standards" for assessing arguments?	p. 4
Conclusion	p. 8
Generalizing the Notion of Argument	p. 10
Doxastic attitudes other than belief	p. 11
Propositional attitudes other than doxastic attitudes	p. 15
Nonpropositional objects of conscious attitudes	p. 17
Conclusion: further questions	p. 19
Logic, Epistemology and Argument Appraisal	p. 21
Introduction	p. 21
Appraising premisses	p. 23
Suitability of inferential link	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 31
The Relation of Argument to Inference	p. 32
Arguments and inferences	p. 32
Inference	p. 39
Logical pragmatics, argumentation theory and the evaluation of inference	p. 43
Inconsistency, Rationality and Relativism	p. 46
Why is inconsistency a fault?	p. 46
How serious a fault is inconsistency?	p. 49
When is it reasonable to tolerate inconsistency?	p. 51
What about relativism?	p. 54
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc	p. 56
Logic, Coherence and Psychology	p. 64
Logic, Coherence and Psychology Revisited	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Understanding a domain as necessary background of any reasoning	p. 74
Is the understanding of a domain susceptible of propositional or sentential representation?	p. 75
Understanding, coherence and rationality	p. 78
Logical Form and the Link Between Premisses and Conclusion	p. 81
Preliminaries	p. 81
Semantic entailments	p. 85
Inductive inferences and Goodman's paradox	p. 89
The effect of pragmatic considerations on the validity of inductive generalization	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 96
Argument schemes and the Evaluation of Presumptive Reasoning	p. 98
In what sense does presumptive reasoning/argument constitute a sui generis class?	p. 98
Are there normative argument schemes?	p. 100
Presumption and Argument Schemes	p. 105
Presumptive reasoning	p. 105
Argument schemes	p. 108
Do argument schemes have normative force?	p. 109
What is the point of identifying argument schemes?	p. 111
Cognitive Science and the Future of Rational Criticism	p. 113
Cognitive science at the extremes	p. 113
What if the eliminativists are right?	p. 117
Logic, Dialectic and the Practice of Rational Criticism	p. 126
Introduction	p. 126
The nature of the undertaking to which these papers are devoted	p. 128
Revisiting "Dialectic and the Structure of Argument"--the role of dialectic	p. 130
Revisiting "Dialectic and the Structure of Argument",--relativism	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 140
References	p. 141
Index	p. 145
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Collected Papers on Informal Logic with an Introduction by Hans V. Hansen

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