3 Using Assertibility Conditions to Extract and Evaluate Arguments

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Introduction 1
3. Argumentation Evaluation
4. 1 Argumentative Validity as a Function of the Argumentative Forum 7
5. 2 A 'Logical Audit' Scheme for Argument Evaluation 17
6. 3 Using Assertibility Conditions to Extract and Evaluate Arguments 25
7. 4 Types of Argument and the Critical Reader 34
8. Fallacies
9. 5 When is Fallacy a Fallacy? 45
10. 6 When No Reason is Good Reason 56
11. 7 A Sketch of an Epistemic Theory of Fallacies 65
12. 8 Cognitive Development and Fallacies 75
13. Legal Argumentation
14. 9. Interpretation, Law, and Argument: Prospects for Cross Fertilization 85
15. 10 Modes of Judicial Discourse: The Search for Argument Fields 94
16. 11 Deduction in Law 102
17. 12 Can we Require Legislatures to State the Reasons for their Legislative Decisions? 110
18. 13 The Arguments of a Judge 119
19. 14 Ne Bis in Idem and Related Principles 123
20. 15 The American Jury Trial: The Art of Argument in Voir Dire and Opening Statements 131
21. 16 Argument in the Law: The Special Case of the Small Claims Court 142
22. 17 The 'Lawyer's Dialect' and Sir Edward Coke's Advice on Courtroom Argumentation 152
23. Special Fields
24. Arguing over Incommensurable Values 163
25. 19 Beyond Argumentation: The Role of Narrative in Moral Reasoning 170
26. 20 Moral and Aesthetic Argumentation 178
27. 21 The Fallacy of the Improbable Cure 187
28. 22 Quantification of Claims of Value: Counting the Birds 191
29. 23 Policy Science as an Argumentative Paradigm 199
30. 24 On Dialogue-Games, Argumentation, and Literature 209
31. 25 Argumentation and Literary Text: Towards an Operational Model 217
32. 26 The Universality of Logic Processes in Japanese Argument 225
33. 27 Communicating Across Cultures: Argument and International Negotiation 238
34. Case Studies
35. 28 The 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War: A Case Study in Public Argument 253
36. 29 Pronouns for Strategic Purposes 261
37. 30 Politique et fête: Eléments de rhétorique dans des voeux présidentiels de de Gaulle, Giscard d'Estaing et Mitterand 270
38. 31 The Keegstra Case: The Anti-Semitic Argument in Modern Day Alberta Schools 278
39. 32 Political and Legal Convergence: A Case Study of the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial 289
40. 33 Representations of Ideology: Analogons, Images, and Ideographs 298
41. 34 Aristotelian Dialectic and Reasoning in Das Kapital of Marx 308
42. 35 An Argumentation-Theoretical Analysis of Lenin's Political Strategies 317
43. 36 The Argumentation of Self in Job- Interviews 327
44. 37 Argument Strategies Used by Female Inmates Requesting Parole Hearings 337
45. Education in Argumentation
46. 38 A Critical Theory of Critical Thinking 349
47. 39 Skills, Attitudes, and Education for Critical Thinking 358
48. 40 The Form of Television and the Possibility of Critical Thinking 366
49. 41 Perspectives on Argumentation Instruction 376
50. 42 Formalism, Fallacies, and the Teaching of Informal Lotic 386
51. 43 Designing a Test of Inductive Reasoning 394
52. 44 A Program for Teacher Education in Reasoning Skills 404
53. List of Contributors 411