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- Unique overview of the state of the art in argumentation theory
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Table of contents (12 entries)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the historical roots of modern argumentation theory that are still an important theoretical background to contemporary approaches. Because of the complexity, diversity and rate of developments in argumentation theory, there is a real need for an overview of the state of the art, the main approaches that can be distinguished and the distinctive features of these approaches. The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics. The Handbook is co-authored by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C.W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij and Jean Wagemans, who are a coherent and prominent writing team whose expertise covers the whole field. The authors are assisted by an international Editorial Board consisting of outstanding argumentation scholars whose fields of interest are represented in the volume.
Reviews
“This is a comprehensive textbook on the evolution of Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics, and Philosophy traced from ancient Greece, Roman, to modern analytical approaches. … There is an excellent use of footnotes on nearly every page in this work and a complete chapter index as well as an endnote complete bibliography. I recommend this book to all philosophers and students of philosophy especially.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, April, 2016)
“Handbook of Argumentation Theory is meant to be a tool assisting students in finding their way in argumentation theory by providing an up-to-date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of this field of research. … is a true asset for the field of research. … will be particularly useful for anyone interested in argumentation research, from the uninitiated student to the expert. A book, in short, that shouldn’t be missing in any college or university library.” (Ton van Haaften, Argumentation, Vol. 30, 2016)
<“The Handbook of Argumentation Theory is a most welcome contribution to the scholarship on communication. … a must-read reference source for different audiences. … the range of this volume is terrific, not simply for its impressive size and the amount of work of the authors, but on account of the depth of the analytical discussions of the different topics. … Handbook of Argumentation Theory is a monumental work, with each chapter having so much to offer.” (Sara Rubinelli, Journal of Argumentation in Context, Vol. 5 (3), 2016)Authors and Affiliations
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Department Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam Faculty Humanities, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frans H. van Eemeren
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Dept. Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam Fac. Humanities, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bart Garssen, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Jean H. M. Wagemans
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University of Groningen Fac. Philosophy, Groningen, The Netherlands
Erik C. W. Krabbe
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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Bart Verheij
About the authors
Bart Garssen is Lecturer at the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric of the University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Master´s program Discourse and Argumentation Studies Amsterdam (DASA). He is Book Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Argumentation, and Editor of the book series Argumentation in Context. His research interests are empirical research of argumentation, political argumentation and the fallacies. Together with Frans H. van Eemeren and Bert Meuffels he published Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness (2009).
C.W. Krabbe (1943) studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. His Ph.D. dissertation, Studies in Dialogical Logic (Groningen, 1982) was supervised by E.M. Barth and by K. Lorenz. Together with E.M. Barth, he wrote From Axiom to Dialogue (1982), a comprehensive study of dialectic systems and their connections with other types of logic. His publications focus on dialogue logic and argumentation. Krabbe is an alumnus of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and an Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Argumentation. Krabbe taught logic at the University of Amsterdam and at the University of Utrecht. From 1988 until 2008 he was an Associate Professor of Logic at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen, teaching both philosophical and mathematical logic and theory of argumentation. In 1995 he was, moreover, appointed as Professor on a special chair for Philosophical Theory of Argumentation. Together with D.N. Walton he co-authored the monograph Commitment in Dialogue (1995). In 1998 Krabbe received an ISSA-award for excellent research. He retired in 2008.
A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric of the University of Amsterdam. She us Director of the Research Master´s program Rhetoric, Argumentation theory, and Philosophy (RAP). Her research concentrated on linguistic characteristics of argumentation and argumentation structures. In 2007 she published, together with Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser, the monograph Argumentative Indicators in Discourse. Her current research focuses on the role of stylistic devices in strategic manoeuvring aimed at balancing the pursuit of rhetorical effectiveness with dialectical reasonableness. Snoeck Henkemans is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Informal Logic.
Bart Verheij is a tenured lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE) of the University of Groningen. In 2013-2014, he is resident fellow at the CodeX center for legal informatics, Stanford University. He holds an MSc degree in Mathematics (University of Amsterdam) and obtained his PhD degree at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, on a dissertation about the formal modeling of legal argumentation. His research focuses on argumentation, law and artificial intelligence. He currently leads a research project on argumentation, narrative and probabilistic approaches to reasoning with evidence, funded by the NWO Forensic Science program (2012-2016). In 2013, he was a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China). He served as program chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013, Rome) and of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012) in Vienna. He authored the monograph 'Virtual Arguments. On the Design of Argument Assistants for Lawyers and Other Arguers' (2004) and coedited the volumes 'Legal Evidence and Proof: Statistics, Stories, Logic' (2009) and 'Arguing on the Toulmin Model. NewEssays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation' (2006). More information is available at http://www.ai.rug.nl/~verheij/.
Jean H.M. Wagemans studied philosophy and argumentation theory at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD at this university in 2009. At present, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory, and Rhetoric of the same university. His specializations include antique dialectic and rhetoric, the conceptual structure of integrated pragma-dialectics, and scholarly argumentation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Argumentation Theory
Authors: Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C. W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij, Jean H. M. Wagemans
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9473-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9472-8Published: 16 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9473-5Published: 02 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 988
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy, general, Linguistics, general, Social Sciences, general, Law, general, Logic