Beschreibung:
This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock's most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation.
Chapter 1 Deduction, induction and conduction.- Chapter 2 The linked-convergent distinction.- Chapter 3 Postscript.- Chapter 4 Enthymematic arguments.- Chapter 5 Does the traditional treatment of enthymemes rest on a mistake?.- Chapter 6 Toulmin's warrants.- Chapter 7 Non-logical consequence.- Chapter 8 Inference claims.- Chapter 9 Material consequence and counter-factuals.- Chapter 19 Some principles of rational mutual inquiry.- Chapter 20 The practice of argumentative discussion.- The significance of informal logic for philosophy.- Chapter 30 Critical thinking as an educational ideal.