Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation

J. Anthony Blair is a prominent international figure in argumentation studies. He is among the originators of informal logic, an author of textbooks on the informal logic approach to argument analysis and evaluation and on critical thinking, and a founder and editor of the journal Informal Logic. Blair is widely recognized among the leaders in the field for contributing formative ideas to the argumentation literature of the last few decades. This selection of key works provides insights into the history of the field of argumentation theory and various related disciplines. It illuminates the central debates and presents core ideas in four main areas: Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Argument Theory and Logic, Dialectic and Rhetoric.

• Argument Management
• Argument Theory Integration
• Argumentation
• Argumentation Studies
• Critical Discussion Model
• Critical Thinking
• Critical Thinking and Social Studies
• Informal Logic
• Informal Logic and Logic
• International Society for the Study of Argumentation
• Issues in Logic and Communication
• J. Anthony Blair
• Justice and Argumentation
• Limits of the Dialogue Model and Argument
• Obligation to Reason Well
• Philosophy of Arguments
• Pragma-Dialectics
• Premiss Adequacy
• Premissary Relevance
• Presumptive Reasoning
• Relevance, Accceptability and Sufficiency
• Rhetoric and Argumentation
• Rhetoric of Visual Arguments
• Walton's Argument Schemes
• What is Bias

• Windsor, Canada

  Christopher W. Tindale

• , Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argume, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

  J. Anthony Blair

Policies and ethics