On Reasoning and Argument: Essays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking

Springer International Publishing AG

On Reasoning and ArgumentEssays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking\nAuthor(s): David Hitchcock\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783319851846, 978-3319851846\nSynopsis\nThis book brings together in one place David Hitchcocks most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in the philosophy of argumentation.\nAmong other things, the author:    develops an account of material consequence that permits evaluation of inferences without problematic postulation of unstated premises.    updates his recursive definition of argument that accommodates chaining and embedding of arguments and allows any type of illocutionary act to be a conclusion.    advances a general.