Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness

Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules
2009
ISBN: 978-94-007-2601-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Argumentation Library

In , Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the University of Amsterdam, their home university. In these studies they test methodically the intersubjective acceptability of the rules for critical discussion proposed in this theory by confronting ordinary arguers who have not received any special education in argumentation and fallacies with discussion fragments containing both fallacious and non-fallacious argumentative moves. The research covers a wide range of informal fallacies. In this way, the authors create a basis for comparing the theoretical reasonableness conception of pragma-dialectics with the norms for judging argumentative moves prevailing in argumentative practice. provides a unique insight into the relationship between theoretical and practical conceptions of reasonableness, supported by extensive empirical material gained by means of sophisticated experimental research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eemeren, Frans H. Van

Meuffels, Bert

Garssen, Bart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Theoretical Background and Organization of the Study.- Considerations Regarding the Design of the Study.- Ad Hominem Fallacies: An Exemplary Study.- The Confrontation Stage: The Freedom Rule.- The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend Rule (I).- The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend (II).- The Argumentation Stage: The Argument Scheme Rule.- The Concluding Stage: The Concluding Rule.- Conventional Validity of the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules.