The Death of Argument: Fallacies in Agent Based Reasoning

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Springer Science & Business Media, 3 lis 2004 - 378
The present work is a fair record of work I've done on the fallacies and related matters in the fifteen years since 1986. The book may be seen as a sequel to Fallacies: Selected papers 1972-1982, which I wrote with Douglas Walton, and which appeared in 1989 with Foris. This time I am on my own. Douglas Walton has, long since, found his own voice, as the saying has it; and so have I. Both of us greatly value the time we spent performing duets, but we also recognize the attractions of solo work. If I had to characterize the difference that has manifested itself in our later work, I would venture that Walton has strayed more, and I less, from what has come to be called the Woods-Walton Approach to the study of fallacies. Perhaps, on reflection "stray" is not the word for it, inasmuch as Walton's deviation from and my fidelity to the WWA are serious matters of methodological principle. The WWA was always conceived of as a way of handling the analysis of various kinds of fallacious argument or reasoning. It was a response to a particular challenge [Hamblin, 1970]. The challenge was that since logicians had allowed the investigation of fallacious reasoning to fall into disgraceful disarray, it was up to them to put things right. Accordingly, the WWA sought these repairs amidst the rich pluralisms of logic in the 1970s and beyond.
 

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METATHEORETICAL QUESTIONS
1
WHO CARES ABOUT THE FALLACIES?
3
THE NECESSITY OF FORMALISM
25
THE INFORMAL CORE OF FORMAL LOGIC
43
THREATS AND INTIMIDATION
63
AD BACULUM AND PASCALS WAGER
65
APPEAL TO FORCE
75
DIALECTICAL BLINDSPOTS
97
INTRACTABLE DISAGREEMENT
183
STANDOFFS IN PUBLIC POLICY
185
STANDOFFS AND DEMORALIZATION
201
HOW TO INTERPRET ARGUMENTS
217
CHARITY CAN WE FIND IT A HOME?
219
MISSING PREMISSES
239
BY PARITY OF REASONING
253
VERDI IS THE PUCCINI OF MUSIC
273

AD HOMINEM
111
AND SO INDEED ARE PERFECT CHEAT
125
PRAGMADIALECTICS
149
PRAGMADIALECTICS
151
BUTTERCUPS GNPS AND QUARKS
161
UNIFYING THE FALLACIES?
171
SECUNDUM QUID
301
HASTY GENERALIZATION
311
THE PROBLEM OF ABDUCTION
335
THE WAY AHEAD?
349
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