Libro
The Uses of Argument
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978-0-521-53483-3
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CG10340
Autor
Stephen E. Toulmin
Institución
Resumen
- A central theme throughout the impressive series of philisophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of topics, brought up in every day life or in academis research , can be rationally justified. Is there one universal system of norms, by which all sorts or arguments in all sorts of fields must be judged, or must each sort of argument be judged according to its own norms? In The Uses of Argument (1958) the author sets out his vew on these questions for the first time. Reacting severely against the - narrow - approach to ordinary arguments taken in syllogistic and modern logic, he advocates--analogous with existing practice in the field of law--a procedural rather tha formal notion of validity. According to Toulmin, certain constant ( - field-invariant - ) elements can be discerned in the way in which argumentation develops, while in every case there will also be some variable ( - field-dependent - ) elements in the way in which its to be judged. Toulmin - s - broarder - approach aims at creating a more epistemological and empirial logic that takes both tymes of elements into account. In spite of initial critisisms from logicians and fellow philosophers, The Uses of Argument has been and enduring source of inspiration and discussion to students of agumentation from all kinds of disciplinary background for more than forty years. Not only Toulmin - s views on the field-dependancy of validity criteria but also his model of the - layout arguments - , with its description of the funcional moves in the argumentation process, have made this booka modern classic in the study of argumentation. - Frans van Eemeren, Univertsity of Amsterdam.