2nd Edition
Argumentation Analysis and Evaluation
Preface
1 Standpoints and differences of opinion
Essentials
1.1 Discussion and disagreement
1.2 Explicit and implicit differences of opinion
1.3 Positive and negative standpoints
1.4 Standpoints and expressions of doubt
1.5 Types of differences of opinion
1.6 Main differences of opinion and subordinate differences of opinion
1.7 The presentation of standpoints and doubt
Further reading
Exercises
Special assignment 1
2 Argumentation and discussion
Essentials
2.1 Resolving a difference of opinion
2.2 Argumentative discourse and having a critical discussion
2.3 The ideal model of a critical discussion
2.4 Argumentation in a critical discussion
Further reading
Exercises
3 The presentation of argumentation
Essentials
3.1 Identifying the standpoint
3.2 Indicators of argumentation
3.3 Clues in the context
3.4 Additional means of identifying argumentation
3.5 Explanation, elaboration and clarification
3.6 A maximally argumentative interpretation
Further reading
Exercises
4 Unexpressed standpoints and unexpressed premises
Essentials
4.1 Unexpressed elements in argumentative discourse
4.2 Indirectness and the rules for communication
4.3 Correctness conditions for speech acts
4.4 Violations of the communication rules
4.5 Variants of indirectness
4.6 Making unexpressed standpoints explicit
4.7 Making unexpressed premises explicit
4.8 Unexpressed premises in a well-defined context
Further reading
Exercises
5 The argumentation structure
Essentials
5.1 Single arguments
5.2 Combinations of single arguments
5.3 Multiple, coordinative, and subordinative argumentation
5.4 Representing the argumentation structure schematically
5.5 The presentation of complex argumentation
5.6 A maximally argumentative analysis
5.7 Unexpressed premises and complex argumentation
5.8 Composing an analytic overview
Further reading
Exercises
Special assignments 2, 3, 4, 5
6 The soundness of argumentation
Essentials
6.1 Evaluating argumentative discourse
6.2 The acceptability of argumentative statements
6.3 The validity of the reasoning
6.4 The soundness of argument schemes
6.5 Argumentation based on a symptomatic relation
6.6 Argumentation based on a relation of analogy
6.7 Argumentation based on a causal relation
6.8 The presentation of different types of argumentation
Further reading
Exercises
7 Fallacies as violations of discussion rules 1-5
Essentials
7.1 Fallacies and discussion rules
7.2 Violations of the freedom rule
7.3 Violations of the burden-of-proof rule
7.4 Violations of the standpoint rule
7.5 Violations of the relevance rule
7.6 Violations of the unexpressed premise rule
Further reading
Exercises
8 Fallacies as violations of discussion rules 6-10
Essentials
8.1 The conclusive defense of standpoints
8.2 Violations of the starting point rule
8.3 Violations of the validity rule
8.4 Violations of the argument scheme rule
8.5 Violations of the closure rule
8.6 Violations of the usage rule
Further reading
Exercises
Special assignment 6
9 Strategic manoeuvring
Essentials
9.1 Reconciling reasonableness and effectiveness
9.2 Three aspects of strategic manoeuvring
9.3 Rhetorical analogues of dialectical aims
9.4 Various kinds of argumentative strategies
9.5 Fallacies as derailments of strategic manoeuvring
9.6 The treacherous character of fallacious strategic manoeuvring
Further reading
Exercises
Special assignment 7
10 The conventionalization of communicative activity types
Essentials
10.1 Communicative activity types
10.2 Argumentative characterization of communicative activity types
10.3 Institutional preconditions for strategic manoeuvring
10.4 Different implementations of critical questions
Further reading
Exercises
Special assignment 8
Overview of rules for critical discussion and fallacies
General references
Biography
A. Francisca Sn Henkemans
Frans H. van Eemeren
