Perspectives on Argumentation: Essays in Honor of Wayne BrockriedeRobert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz IDEA, 2006 - 338 pages Key title in Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debate Series, a classic work once again available. Explores a variety of perspectives and situations in which teachers and learners can find arguments. The book is dedicated to Wayne Brockriede (1922-1985) whose career focused on teaching and learning about argument. The essays demonstrate the important role that reasoning plays in personal, social, philosophical and technical communities. The essays that are not published elsewhere also emphasize the great variety of unique places where students can search for and find arguments. |
Contents
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Three Perspectives on Argument Rhetoric Dialectic Logic | 9 |
Argument Communities | 27 |
Arguing in the Personal Community | 41 |
Arguments in Interpersonal Relationship | 43 |
To Argue or Not to Argue | 55 |
Marital Arguments | 73 |
Arguing in Philosophical and Technical Communities | 175 |
Argument in the Human Sciences | 178 |
Classical Argument Dialectics and Trialectics | 190 |
Darwin Thales and the Milkmaid Scientific Revolution and Argument from Common Beliefs and Common Sense | 207 |
Argumentation and Postmodern Critique | 221 |
Argument Criticism as Creative | 232 |
Arguing in Nontraditional Places | 241 |
The Narratives of Alcoholics Anonymous Dialectical Good Reasons | 243 |
Analyzing Argumentative Discourse | 86 |
Arguing in the Social Community | 107 |
Taking Social Argument Serious | 110 |
Fallacies in Everyday Argument | 121 |
Where Is Argument? Perelmans Theory of Values | 134 |
Eisenhowers Farewell The Epistemic Function of Argument | 151 |
Naming and Name Calling as Acts of Definition Political Campaigns and the 1988 Presidential Debates | 162 |
Argument and Beauty A Review and Exploration of Connections | 258 |
Corporate Advocacy as Argumentation | 272 |
The Future of Argumentation | 285 |
Future Directions in Argumentation Theory and Practice | 287 |
Future Directions in Argumentation Research | 298 |
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