Ebook: Arguing on the Toulmin Model: New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation
- Tags: Epistemology, Logic, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
- Series: Argumentation Library 10
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees’ comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.
In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees’ comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.
In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees’ comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-23
Reasoning in Theory and Practice....Pages 25-29
A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument....Pages 31-38
Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy....Pages 39-48
A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda....Pages 49-69
Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism....Pages 71-85
Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach....Pages 87-101
Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb....Pages 103-113
Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants....Pages 115-143
‘Probably’....Pages 145-164
The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and of Toulmin's Rebuttal....Pages 165-180
Evaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin's Scheme....Pages 181-202
Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model....Pages 203-218
The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse....Pages 219-230
Artificial Intelligence & Law, Logic and Argument Schemes....Pages 231-245
Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning....Pages 247-259
The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin....Pages 261-272
From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View....Pages 273-287
Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains....Pages 289-301
Toulmin's Model and the Solving of Ill-Structured Problems....Pages 303-311
Arguing By Question: A Toulminian Reading of Cicero's Account of the Enthymeme....Pages 313-325
The Uses of Argument in Mathematics....Pages 327-339
Translating Toulmin Diagrams: Theory Neutrality in Argument Representation....Pages 341-358
The Toulmin Test: Framing Argumentation within Belief Revision Theories....Pages 359-377
Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin....Pages 379-397
Back Matter....Pages 399-439
In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees’ comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-23
Reasoning in Theory and Practice....Pages 25-29
A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument....Pages 31-38
Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy....Pages 39-48
A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda....Pages 49-69
Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism....Pages 71-85
Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach....Pages 87-101
Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb....Pages 103-113
Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants....Pages 115-143
‘Probably’....Pages 145-164
The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and of Toulmin's Rebuttal....Pages 165-180
Evaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin's Scheme....Pages 181-202
Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model....Pages 203-218
The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse....Pages 219-230
Artificial Intelligence & Law, Logic and Argument Schemes....Pages 231-245
Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning....Pages 247-259
The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin....Pages 261-272
From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View....Pages 273-287
Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains....Pages 289-301
Toulmin's Model and the Solving of Ill-Structured Problems....Pages 303-311
Arguing By Question: A Toulminian Reading of Cicero's Account of the Enthymeme....Pages 313-325
The Uses of Argument in Mathematics....Pages 327-339
Translating Toulmin Diagrams: Theory Neutrality in Argument Representation....Pages 341-358
The Toulmin Test: Framing Argumentation within Belief Revision Theories....Pages 359-377
Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin....Pages 379-397
Back Matter....Pages 399-439
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