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Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of
inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from
disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis,
linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,
political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric
and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of
interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it
is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a
familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters
into this multidisciplinary matrix. This book offers its readers a
unique comprehensive survey of the various theoretical
contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation.
It discusses the historical works that provide the background to
the field and all major approaches and trends in contemporary
research.
Argument has been the subject of systematic inquiry for
twenty-five hundred years. It has been graced with theories, such
as formal logic or the legal theory of evidence, that have acquired
a more or less settled provenance with regard to specific issues.
But there has been nothing to date that qualifies as a unified
general theory of argumentation, in all its richness and
complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist must have
access to materials and methods that lie beyond his or her "home"
subject. It is precisely on this account that this volume is
offered to all the constituent research communities and their
students. Apart from the historical sections, each chapter provides
an economical introduction to the problems and methods that
characterize a given part of the contemporary research program.
Because the chapters are self-contained, they can be consulted in
the order of a reader's interests or research requirements. But
there is value in reading the work in its entirety. Jointly
authored by the very people whose research has done much to define
the current state of argumentation theory and to point the way
toward more general and unified future treatments, this book is an
impressively authoritative contribution to the field.
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of
inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from
disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis,
linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology,
political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric
and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of
interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it
is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a
familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters
into this multidisciplinary matrix. This book offers its readers a
unique comprehensive survey of the various theoretical
contributions which have been made to the study of argumentation.
It discusses the historical works that provide the background to
the field and all major approaches and trends in contemporary
research.
Argument has been the subject of systematic inquiry for
twenty-five hundred years. It has been graced with theories, such
as formal logic or the legal theory of evidence, that have acquired
a more or less settled provenance with regard to specific issues.
But there has been nothing to date that qualifies as a unified
general theory of argumentation, in all its richness and
complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist must have
access to materials and methods that lie beyond his or her "home"
subject. It is precisely on this account that this volume is
offered to all the constituent research communities and their
students. Apart from the historical sections, each chapter provides
an economical introduction to the problems and methods that
characterize a given part of the contemporary research program.
Because the chapters are self-contained, they can be consulted in
the order of a reader's interests or research requirements. But
there is value in reading the work in its entirety. Jointly
authored by the very people whose research has done much to define
the current state of argumentation theory and to point the way
toward more general and unified future treatments, this book is an
impressively authoritative contribution to the field.
This volume contains a selection of papers (keynote addresses and
other important papers) from the International Conference on
Argumentation at Amsterdam of 2002 by prominent international
scholars of argumentation theory. The contributions are
representative of the main approaches to the study of
argumentation: the informal logical approach, the logical approach,
the dialectical approach, the rhetorical and the communicative
approach. Taken together the papers in this volume provide an
insightful cross-section of the current state of affairs in
argumentation research.
The collection of essays as a whole will be of interest to all
those working in the field of argumentation theory and to all
scholars who are interested in recent developments in this field.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the
International Conference on Argumentation (Amsterdam, 2002) by
prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. It
provides an insightful cross-section of the current state of
affairs in argumentation research. It will be of interest to all
those working in the field of argumentation theory and to all
scholars who are interested in recent developments in this
field.
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