Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction : An Approach to a Branch of Logic
- Theorizing about reasoning and argument
- Fallacies and asymmetries
- Critiques
- 10 Siegel on Critical Thinking : Reasoning versus Rationality versus Criticism (1989)
- 11 Induction and Intuition in the Normative Study of Reasoning : Cohen on Inductive Reasoning in Philosophy (1991)
- 12 Logic, Politics, and Gramsci
- 13 The Dialectical Approach to Interpretation and Evaluation : From Axiom to Dialogue (Barth) and from Structure to Dialogue (Freeman) (1995)
- 14 The Port-Royal Logic's Theory of Argument
- 15 A Critique of the Dialectical Approach, Part Ⅱ : The Amsterdam School and Walton on Complex Dialogues (1999)
- 16 Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy
- 17 Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument : Goldman and Johnson on the Concept of Argument (2003)
- Historical analyses
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
13 - The Dialectical Approach to Interpretation and Evaluation : From Axiom to Dialogue (Barth) and from Structure to Dialogue (Freeman) (1995)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction : An Approach to a Branch of Logic
- Theorizing about reasoning and argument
- Fallacies and asymmetries
- Critiques
- 10 Siegel on Critical Thinking : Reasoning versus Rationality versus Criticism (1989)
- 11 Induction and Intuition in the Normative Study of Reasoning : Cohen on Inductive Reasoning in Philosophy (1991)
- 12 Logic, Politics, and Gramsci
- 13 The Dialectical Approach to Interpretation and Evaluation : From Axiom to Dialogue (Barth) and from Structure to Dialogue (Freeman) (1995)
- 14 The Port-Royal Logic's Theory of Argument
- 15 A Critique of the Dialectical Approach, Part Ⅱ : The Amsterdam School and Walton on Complex Dialogues (1999)
- 16 Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy
- 17 Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument : Goldman and Johnson on the Concept of Argument (2003)
- Historical analyses
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Motivation
This chapter is part of a project designed to understand what exactly is meant by the dialectical approach and to evaluate its fruitfulness. The context and rationale for this undertaking are as follows.
One motive is that I should like to understand better the relationship of the dialectical to the empirical and the informal-logic approaches. The latter two are approaches toward which I am myself inclined and which I have advocated both in theory and in practice. On the other hand, in regard to the dialectical approach, my attitude has been more ambivalent, for I have not explicitly advocated it and yet I have studied material and problems and reached conclusions which bear a close relationship to the dialectical approach.
Moreover, it turns out that some exponents of the dialectical approach also advocate an informal-logic approach; and here I am thinking of Blair and Johnson. It also happens that some advocates of the dialectical approach have a clear empirical orientation; and here I have in mind Eemeren and Grootendorst. The question that arises here is whether such overlap is a mere coincidence, or whether there is a natural affinity between the informal-logic and the dialectical orientations and between the empirical and dialectical viewpoints.
A third background motive is the following. It stems from the fact that the dialectical approach to argumentation theory has become the dominant one.
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- Arguments about ArgumentsSystematic, Critical, and Historical Essays In Logical Theory, pp. 231 - 245Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005