Chapters in this book

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