Argumentation Schemes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521723749)

This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.

Author: Douglas Walton, Christopher Reed, Fabrizio Macagno
ISBN-10: 0521723744
ISBN-13: 9780521723749
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2008
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 5
Choice 03/01/2009