Argumentation Schemes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521897907)

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
ISBN-10: 0521897904
ISBN-13: 9780521897907
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2008
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2009