Overview
- Brings together four decades of work by this well-respected author in argumentation studies
- Includes many papers that are not readily available or have not been widely published
- A "must read" for students of argumentation in Communication or Philosophy graduate programmes
- Facilitates the assessment of Hitchcock’s body of work as a whole
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 30)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Deduction, Induction and Conduction
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Among other things, the author:
• develops an account of “material consequence” that permits evaluation of inferences without problematic postulation of unstated premises.
• updates his recursive definition of argument that accommodates chaining and embedding of arguments and allows any type of illocutionary act to be a conclusion.
• advances a general theory of relevance.
• provides comprehensive frameworks for evaluating inferences in reasoning by analogy, means-end reasoning, and appeals to considerations or criteria.
• argues that none of the forms of arguing ad hominem is a fallacy.
• describes proven methods of teaching critical thinking effectively.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Hitchcock, professor emeritus of philosophy at McMaster University, is the founding president of the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, author of Critical Thinking (Methuen, 1983), co-author of Evidence-Based Practice: Logic and Critical Thinking in Medicine (AMA Press, 2005), and co-editor of Arguing on the Toulmin Model (Springer, 2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On Reasoning and Argument
Book Subtitle: Essays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking
Authors: David Hitchcock
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53562-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53561-6Published: 19 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85184-6Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53562-3Published: 06 April 2017
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 553
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Classical Studies, Philology, Literacy, Logic