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20Emotive Language in ArgumentationInformal Logic 34 (3): 337-340. 2014.Book Review Emotive Language in Argumentation by Fabrizio Macagno and Douglas Walton New York: Cambridge UP. 9781107676657. Review by MICHAEL A. GILBERT Department of Philosophy York University 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 [email protected].
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19Deviant Logic: Some Philosophical Issues. Susan Haack (review)Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 149-151. 1978.
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21Critical Thinking: A Guide to Evaluating Information David Hitchcock Toronto: Methuen, 1983. Pp. xiv, 283. $16.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (3): 559-. 1985.
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8Cooperative Argumentation: A Model for Deliberative Community (review)Informal Logic 24 (3): 269-271. 2004.
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110Coalescent argumentationArgumentation 9 (5): 837-852. 1995.Coalescent argumentation is a normative ideal that involves the joining together of two disparate claims through recognition and exploration of opposing positions. By uncovering the crucial connection between a claim and the attitudes, beliefs, feelings, values and needs to which it is connected dispute partners are able to identify points of agreement and disagreement. These points can then be utilized to effect coalescence, a joining or merging of divergent positions, by forming the basis for …Read more
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5Book Reviews : Charles Arthur Willard, A Theory of Argumentation. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London, 1989. Pp. xi, 360, $38.95 (cloth (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (2): 257-262. 1993.
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31Arguments & ArguersTeaching Philosophy 18 (2): 125-138. 1995.The author assesses three major problems in critical reasoning methods as taught in introductory logic courses. First, the author critiques the use of fallacies as a mode of analysis. Second, the author objects to the negative outlook expressed in the name “critical reasoning.” Lastly, the author scrutinizes the critical reasoning method's lack of focus on the people that are arguing or their relevance to the arguments under examination. The author suggests that critical reasoning should focus m…Read more
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22How to win an argumentMcGraw-Hill. 1978.It's not always the person who is right who wins the arguments, more often it's the person who argues best. Gilbert's practical, clever guide--which also serves as a text for his popular seminars on the art of arguing--shows readers how to hone their polemical skills, and how to counter the verbal weapons that may be in an opponent's arsenal.
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