Acts of Arguing

Christopher W. Tindale is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University. He is the coauthor of Good Reasoning Matters: A Constructive Approach to Critical Thinking and is coeditor of Argumentation and Rhetoric.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Case for Rhetorical Argumentation 1. Models of Argumentation2. Product, Procedure, and Process3. Habermas's Challenge4. The Case for the Rhetorical5. Origins in the Rhetoric6. Rhetorical Argument: Enthymeme7. Rhetorical Argumentation8. Contemporary Views9. Outline of the Study Chapter 1. Argument as Product: The Logical Perspective 1.1 Formal Logic and the Classical Root1.2 The Toulmin Transition1.3 Informal Logic1.4 Problems of the Product-oriented Perspective1.5 Rhetoric and Logic Chapter 2. Argumentation as Dialectical 2.1 Outline of the Pragma-Dialectical Approach2.2 Misunderstandings and Qualifications2.3 Pragma-Dialectics and Fallacies2.4 Walton's Functional Account2.5 A Critical Evaluation2.6 Rhetorical Elements: Audiences, Readers, and Third Parties Chapter 3. Contexts and Argument: An Introduction to the Rhetorical Perspective 3.1 The New Rhetoric3.2 Emotion and Argumentation3.3 Context3.4 Audiences3.5 The Universal Audience Chapter 4. Audiences and the Conditions for Adherence 4.1 Perelman's Relativism4.2 Relevance and Cognitive Environments4.3 Acceptability4.4 Blair and Johnson's Community of Model Interlocutors4.5 The Universal Audience Again4.6 Preliminary Examples Chapter 5. Case Studies in Rhetorical Argumentation 5.1 Case A Clear Thinking on Shell Oil, Nigeria and the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa A.1 Background and LocaleA.2 Arguer and AudiencesA.3 Mode of ExpressionA.4 Dialectical ObligationsA.5 The Logical StructureA.6 The Reasonableness of the Argumentation 5.2 Case B Personality, Testimony, and Holocaust Denial B.1 The Initial TextB.2 Harwood's Use of Ethotic ArgumentsB.3 Testimony in the Zundel TrialB.4 Ethos and the LawB.5 The Role of Ethotic Arguments Chapter 6. Fallacy 6.1 Problems with Fallacies6.2 Senses of "Fallacy"6.3 Fallacy as Bad Product6.4 Fallacy as Bad Procedure6.5 Fallacy as Bad Process6.6 Crosswhite's Perelmanian Account6.7 The "Act" of Fallacy Chapter 7. Argumentation and the Critiques of Reason 7.1 Common Concerns7.2 Argument, Persuasion, and Critique7.3 Femininity, Emotion, and the Body7.4 Nye's Logics7.5 Post critique Faces of Argument7.6 Differences, Gestures, and the Good Conclusion: Summation and Prolepsis Notes References Index

"The importance of this book lies in Tindale's ability to synthesize existing insights—primarily those of Aristotle and Perelman, but many others as well—into a rhetorical theory of argumentation, all the while adding new elements which he has fashioned himself. What Tindale does is sketch, then elaborate a relatively comprehensive model of argument which is fundamentally rhetorical. And he does this well."—Michael Wreen, Marquette University