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Arguing on the Toulmin Model

New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation

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Editors:
  1. David Hitchcock

    1. Department of Philosophy, Mc Master University, Hamilton, Canada

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  2. Bart Verheij

    1. Artificial Intelligence, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  • The only book-length comprehensive study of Stephen Toulmin’s influential model for the layout of arguments
  • New essays on argument analysis and evaluation by 27 scholars from 10 countries in the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology and speech communication
  • Novel contributions to the theory of non-formal inferences, to the theory of defeaters, to the debate over relativism in argument evaluation, and to the classification of the components of arguments

Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 10)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Introduction

    • David Hitchcock, Bart Verheij
    Pages 1-23

  3. Reasoning in Theory and Practice

    • Stephen E. Toulmin
    Pages 25-29

  4. A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument

    • Ronald P. Loui
    Pages 31-38

  5. Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy

    • G. Thomas Goodnight
    Pages 39-48

  6. A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda

    • Mark Weinstein
    Pages 49-69

  7. Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism

    • Lilian Bermejo-Luque
    Pages 71-85

  8. Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach

    • James B. Freeman
    Pages 87-101

  9. Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb

    • James F. Klumpp
    Pages 103-113

  10. Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants

    • Robert C. Pinto
    Pages 115-143

  11. ‘Probably’

    • Robert H. Ennis
    Pages 145-164

  12. The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and of Toulmin's Rebuttal

    • Wouter H. Slob
    Pages 165-180

  13. Evaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin's Scheme

    • Bart Verheij
    Pages 181-202

  14. Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model

    • David Hitchcock
    Pages 203-218

  15. The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse

    • Olaf Tans
    Pages 219-230

  16. Artificial Intelligence & Law, Logic and Argument Schemes

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 231-245

  17. Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning

    • Christian Kock
    Pages 247-259

  18. The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin

    • Txetxu Ausín
    Pages 261-272

  19. From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View

    • John Fox, Sanjay Modgil
    Pages 273-287

  20. Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains

    • John Zeleznikow
    Pages 289-301
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About this book

Summarizing, in The Uses of Argument Toulmin emphasized a number of points that are by now familiar, but still deserve attention: 1. Reasoning and argument involve not only support for points of view, but also attack against them. 2. Reasoning can have qualified conclusions. 3. There are other good types of argument than those of standard formal logic. 4. Unstated assumptions linking premisses to a conclusion are better thought of as inference licenses than as implicit premisses. 5. Standards of reasoning can be field dependent, and can be themselves the subject of argumentation. Each of these points is illustrated by his layout of arguments. The rebuttal illustrates the first point, the qualifier the second point, and the warrant and backing the last three points. 2. RECEPTION OF TOULMIN’S BOOK As Toulmin himself notes in his essay in this volume, which was delivered as an address in 2005, his fellow philosophers we re initially hostile to the ideas in his book. They were taken up, however, by specialists in fields like jurisprudence and psychology, who found that they fit the form s of argument and reasoning that they were studying. And Toulmin’s model was embraced by the field of speech communication in the United States, whose textbooks on argumentation now include an obligatory chapter on the Toulmin model of micro arguments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Mc Master University, Hamilton, Canada

    David Hitchcock

  • Artificial Intelligence, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Bart Verheij

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Arguing on the Toulmin Model

  • Book Subtitle: New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation

  • Editors: David Hitchcock, Bart Verheij

  • Series Title: Argumentation Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4938-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4937-8Published: 26 January 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7233-7Published: 19 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4938-5Published: 24 January 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1566-7650

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 440

  • Topics: Epistemology, Artificial Intelligence, Logic

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