Arguments about Arguments: Systematic, Critical, and Historical Essays In Logical TheoryThis book brings together a selection of essays by one of the pre-eminent scholars of informal logic. Following an approach that is empirical but not psychological, dialectical but not dialogical, and focused on interpretation without neglecting evaluation, Maurice Finocchiaro defines concepts such as reasoning, argument, argument analysis, critical reasoning, methodological reflection, judgment, critical thinking, and informal logic. He defends theses about the rarity of fallacies but the frequency of fallacious reasoning; the asymmetry of positive and negative in argumentation, interpretation, and evaluation; and the role of critical thinking in science, among other topics. And he presents extended critiques of the views of many contemporary scholars, while also integrating into the discussion Arnauld's Port-Royal Logic, Gramsci's theory of intellectuals, and case studies from the history of science, particularly the work of Galileo, Newton, Huygens, and Lavoisier. |
Contents
1987 | 34 |
Methodological Problems in Empirical Logic 1989 | 46 |
Two Empirical Approaches to the Study of Reasoning | 65 |
Critical Thinking Critical Reasoning | 92 |
Fallacies and the Evaluation of Reasoning 1981 | 109 |
Toward a Realistic Theory | 128 |
Asymmetries in Argumentation and Evaluation 1992 | 148 |
The Positive versus the Negative Evaluation of Arguments | 159 |
Johnstones | 277 |
Goldman | 292 |
The Concept of Ad Hominem Argument in Galileo | 329 |
A Role for Logic | 340 |
Toward | 350 |
The Concept of Judgment and Huygens Theory | 361 |
Toward | 386 |
Criticism Reasoning and Judgment in Science 1995 | 409 |
Reasoning versus Rationality | 181 |
Induction and Intuition in the Normative Study | 193 |
Intellectuals Dialectics | 207 |
The Dialectical Approach to Interpretation | 231 |
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