Preface
1. Reasoning and Argument in Everyday Conversation
1. Presumptive Reasoning in Plausible Argument
2. A Case Study: The Dialogue on Tipping
3. Evaluation of the Dialogue
4. The Internal Shift to Higher Abstraction
5. Fallacies and Obstructive Tactics
6. Fallacies of Burden of Proof
7. Some Other Fallacies
8. What Is an Argument? What Is Reasoning?
9. The Use of Reasoning in Argument
10. Rethinking Argument and Reasoning
2. Presumption
1. The Target Concept of Presumption
2. Assumptions, Concessions, and Presuppositions
3. Strengths of Presumptions
4. Speech Act Conditions for Presumptions
5. Kinds of Warrants for Making a Presumption
6. General, Specific, Explicit, and Nonexplicit Presumptions
7. Presumptive Inferences
8. Presumptive Conditionals Clarified
9. Traditional Accounts of Secundum Quid and Related Fallacies
10. Analysis of the Secundum Quid Fallacy
3. Dialogue
1. The Nature of Dialogue
2. Turn Taking in Dialogue
3. Types of Dialogue
4. Discussion and Inquiry
5. Critical Discussion
6. The Nature of Burden of Proof
7. The Basis of Argument
8. A Classification of Types of Dialogue
9. Dialectical Shifts
10. Mixed Dialogues
4. Eristic Dialogue
1. Plato and Aristotle on Eristic Dialgoue
2. Eristic Dialogue: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis
3. Differences Between Debate and Quarrel
4. Organized Group Quarrels
5. Propaganda
6. Valuable Functions of the Quarrel
7. Shift to the Quarrel by Bias Ad Hominem Argument
8. Gradual Shift to the Quarrel
9. Frame of Mind for Argument
10. Bias
5. Argument
1. What Is Argument Taken to Be?
2. The Semantic Conception of Argument
3. Inference and Argument
4. The Speech Act Theory Approach
5. Three Uses of Argument
6. Dialogue as Meta-Argument
7. Argument Defined Pluralistically
8. The Functional Theory
9. Properties of Arguments
10. Aristotle on Reasoning and Argument
6. Reasoning
1. What Is Reasoning?
2. Circular Reasoning
3. Kinds of Reasoning
4. Practical and Discursive Reasoning
5. Practical Inference
6. Complex Practical Reasoning
7. Satisficing and Maximizing
8. Uses of Reasoning in Contexts of Dialogue
9. A Case Study
10. Summary
7. Fallacy
1. Seeming Validity
2. Sophisms and Wrong Inferences
3. Fallacies and Blunders
4. Invalid Inferences and Fallacies
5. Argumentum Ad Hominem
6. Evaluating Ad Hominem Argumentation
7. Argumentum Ad Ignorantiam
8. Argumentum Ad Verecundiam
9. Aristotle's Concept of Sophistical Refutation
10. The Functional Theory of Fallacy
8. Synthesis
1. Use of Presumptions in the Dialogue on Tipping
2. The Nature of Presumptive Reasoning
3. Secundum Quid as a Dialectical Fallacy
4. Maieutic Closure of Dialogue
5. The Task of Evaluating an Argument
6. Need for a Functional Approach
Notes
Bibliography
Index