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.

"Toulmin's model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This volume brings together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The book 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. TOC:1. Introduction. 2. Reasoning in Theory and Practice. 3. A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument. 4. Complex Cases and Legitimation Inferences: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy. 5. A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda. 6. Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism. 7. Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach. 8. Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb. 9. Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants. 10. 'Probably'. 11. The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and Toulmin's Rebuttal. 12. Evaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin Scheme. 13. Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model. 14. The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse. 15. Artificial Intelligence and Law, Logic and Argument Schemes. 16. Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning. 17. The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin. 18. From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View. 19. Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains. 20. Toulmin's Model and The Solving of Ill-Structured Problems. 21. Arguing by Question: A Toulminian Reading of Cicero's Account of the Enthymeme. 22. The Uses of Argument in Mathematics. 23. Translating Toulmin Diagrams: Theory Neutrality in Argument Representation. 24. The Toulmin Test: Framing Argumentation within Belief Revision Theories. 25. Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin. Contributors. References. Index."

Reasoning in Theory and Practice.- A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument.- Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy.- A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda.- Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism.- Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach.- Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb.- Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants.- 'Probably'.- The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and of Toulmin's Rebuttal.- Evaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin's Scheme.- Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model.- The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse.- Artificial Intelligence & Law, Logic and Argument Schemes.- Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning.- The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin.- From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View.- Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains.- Toulmin's Model and the Solving of Ill-Structured Problems.- Arguing By Question: A Toulminian Reading of Cicero's Account of the Enthymeme.- The Uses of Argument in Mathematics.- Translating Toulmin Diagrams: Theory Neutrality in Argument Representation.- The Toulmin Test: Framing Argumentation within Belief Revision Theories.- Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin.