Rhetorical Argumentation

Christopher Tindale (Ph.D. & M.A., University of Waterloo; B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University) teaches and conducts research in the areas of argumentation theory, ethics, and ancient philosophy. Since 2000, he′s been an editor of the journal Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, and he presently sits on the editorial board of Controversia. He is the author of Acts of Arguing: A Rhetorical Model of Argument (SUNY Press, 1999), co-author of Good Reasoning Matters, Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 2004), and co-editor of Argumentation and Its Applications (forthcoming CD-Rom) and two other CD-ROMs, Argumentation at the Century′s Turn and Argumentation and Rhetoric. Recent work of his has appeared in the following journals: Argumentation; Informal Logic; ProtoSociology; Social Theory and Practice. In addition to teaching at Trent University, in 2001-2002 he was a research fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany.

• 1. Introduction: A Rhetorical Turn for ArgumentationAlice′s PredicamentModels of ArgumentBeyond the LogicalBeyond the DialecticalRhetoric and Rhetorical ArgumentationThe Path Ahead2. Argument as Rhetorical...Introduction: Rhetoric′s OriginArgument′s OriginRhetoric and Argument in Fifth- and Fourth- Century GreeceSophistic ArgumentSophistic Argument and the Notion of ′Fallacy′Rhetoric as Invitational3. ...And Rhetoric as ArgumentIntroduction: Rhetorical Figures and ArgumentsReboul on Figures and ArgumentsPerelman and Olbrechts-TytecaFahnestock′s Figural LogicFigures as ArgumentsConclusion4. Rhetorical Contexts and the DialogicalIntroduction: Dialogue and DialoguesBakhtin′s TerminologyDialogic ArgumentReflections on a Bakhtinian ModelExamplesConclusion5. Martians, Philosophers, and Reasonable People: The Construction of Objective StandardsIntroductionHow Martians ReasonThe Martian Standard and the Problems of EvaluationBakhtin′s SuperaddresseePerelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca′s Universal AudienceConclusion6. Developing the Universal AudienceIntroduction: Why the Universal Audience FailsReading the Universal Audience: Two ViewsReappraising the Universal AudienceApplying the Idea of a Universal Audience7. The Truth about Orangutans: Conflicting Criteria of Premise AdequacyIntroduction: Deep Disagreements Between Logic and RhetoricHamblin′s OrangutansThe Rhetoric of Philosophy: Metaphors as ArgumentAcceptabilityConclusion8. Rhetorical ConclusionsFrom Protagoras to BakhtinThe Rhetorical AudienceGoals of Rhetorical ArgumentationConclusions Without Conclusiveness

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