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Dichotomies and types of debate
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse 1
- Dichotomies and types of debate 27
- Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science 51
- Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution 77
- Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context 93
- Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective 109
- On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies 125
- A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion 135
- Responding to objections 149
- Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility 163
- Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies 181
- Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation 197
- Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education 215
- Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies 231
- Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence 249
- Index 275
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse 1
- Dichotomies and types of debate 27
- Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science 51
- Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution 77
- Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context 93
- Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective 109
- On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies 125
- A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion 135
- Responding to objections 149
- Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility 163
- Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies 181
- Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation 197
- Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education 215
- Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies 231
- Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence 249
- Index 275