Pondering on Problems of Argumentation: Twenty Essays on Theoretical Issues

Preface. Problems of argumentation: An introduction: Frans H. van Eemeren & Bart Garssen.I Argumentative strategies. 1. Frans H. van Eemeren & Peter Houtlosser: Seizing the occasion: Parameters for analysing ways of strategic manoeuvring. 2. A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans: Manoeuvring strategically with rhetorical questions. 3. M.A. van Rees: Dissociation: Between rhetorical success and dialectical soundness. 4. Cornelia Ilie: Strategies of refutation by definition: A pragma-rhetorical approach to refutations in a public speech.II Norms of reasonableness and fallaciousness. 5. Scott Jacobs: Nonfallacious rhetorical design in argumentation. 6. Daniel J. O'Keefe: Normatively responsible advocacy: Some provocations from persuasion effects research. 7. Trudy Govier: Duets, cartoons, and tragedies: Struggles with the fallacy of composition. 8. Dale Jacquette: Deductivism and the informal fallacies. III Types of argument and argument schemes. 9. Manfred Kraus: From figure to argument: Contrarium in Roman rhetoric. 10. Bart Garssen: Comparing the incomparable: Figurative analogies in a dialectical testing procedure. 11. Marianne Doury: Argument schemes typologies in practice: The case of comparative arguments. 12. Eddo Rigotti: Whether and how classical topics can be revived within contemporary argumentation theory.IV Structure of argumentation. 13. G.C. Goddu: Against making the linked-convergent distinction. 14. James B. Freeman: Argument strength, the Toulmin model, and ampliative probability. 15. Andrea Rocci: Modalities as indicators in argumentative reconstruction. 16. Leo Groarke: Five theses on Toulmin and visual argument.V Rules for advocacy and discussion. 17. Erik C.W. Krabbe: On how to get beyond the opening stage. 18. Jim Gough: Testing for acceptable premises within systems of belief. 19. G. Thomas Goodnight: The duties of advocacy: Argumentation under conditions of disparity, asymmetry, and difference. 20.Jean Goodwin: Actually existing rules for closing arguments.List of contributors. Index.