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In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a cr...
Douglas Walton rejects the view that the slippery slope argument is a fallacy, contending that such arguments can be used correctly in some cases as a...
Goal-driven, Knowledge-based, Action-guiding Argumentation
This book is an analysis of the distinctive form of reasoning, called practical reasoning by Aristotle (as opposed to theoretical reasoning), that ser...
An Analytic Study of the Concept of Death in Philosophy and Medical Ethics
In this book, Douglas Walton examines the philosophical nature of two issues currently associated with medical ethics. In order to work towards an ana...
Selected Papers 1972-1982
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Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidenc...
Conversational Contexts of Argument
"In this book Douglas Walton proposes a new and practical approach to argument analysis based on his theory that different standards for argument must...
A Philosophical Investigation
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressโs mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
A Handbook for Critical Argument
This is an introductory guide to the basic principles of constructing good arguments and criticizing bad ones. It is nontechnical in its approach, and...
Bridging the gap between applied ethics and ethical theory, Ethical Argumentation draws on recent research in argumentation theory to develop a more r...
Argumentum ad Misericordiam
A useful contribution to theories of argumentation and public address criticism, this book uses a pragmatic approach to understanding conversation as ...
Explores the operation of logical reasoning in trials and legal argumentation, specifically as it applies to the law of evidence....
Arguments from popular opinion have long been regarded with suspicion, and in most logic textbooks the ad populum argument is classified as a fallacy....
This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of ...
Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to ...
Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a s...
Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric
Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize...
Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning
This book develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of...
Arguments from Authority
A new pragmatic approach, based on the latest developments in argumentation theory, analyzing appeal to expert opinion as a form of argument. Reliance...
It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of...
Circular Reasoning as a Tactic of Argumentation
This book offers a new theory of begging the question as an informal fallacy, within a pragmatic framework of reasoned dialogue as a normative theory ...
Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence, and Law
A Pragmatic Study of Ad Hominem Attack, Criticism, Refutation, and Fallacy
Douglas N. Walton considers the question of whether the conventions of informal conversation can be articulated more precisely than they are at presen...
Case Studies on Decision Making in Intensive Care
A Study in Medical Ethics
Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each p...
Walton's book is a study of several fallacies in informal logic. Focusing on question-answer dialogues, and committed to a pragmatic rather than a sem...
An Abductive Theory
"This book is on evidence for character judgments, answering questions about how such judgments are and should be supported or refuted by verifiable e...