Books written by Douglas Walton

  • Historical Foundations of Informal Logic
    Historical Foundations of Informal Logic

    Reprinted in Barnes, et al. (1979), Vol. 3, pp. 13–32, and in Owen (1986), pp. 180–199. Owen, G. E. L. (1965), 'Aristotle and the Snares of Ontology', in Bambrough (1965), pp. 69–75, and reprinted in Owen (1986), pp. 259–278.

  • Abductive Reasoning
    Abductive Reasoning

    Pinocchiaro (1980) also studied the case of Newton's discovery of gravitation. Using New— ton's texts and letters, he argued that an important objective for Newton was to give “conceptual intelligibility” to the notion (p. 246).

  • One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias
    One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias

    Blyth, John W. A Modern Introduction to Logic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. ... New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. Carney, James D. and Richard Scheer. Fundamentals of Logic. 2nd ed.

  • Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972–1982
    Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972–1982

    Simon, Herbert 1954 “Bandwagon and Underdog Effects and the Possibility of Election Predictions'. ... Stegmuller, W. 1964 “Remarks on the Completeness of Logical Systems Relative to the Validity Concepts of P. Lorenzen and K. Lorenz'.

  • Ad Hominem Arguments
    Ad Hominem Arguments

    Douglas Walton presents a clear account of the structure of the ad hominem argument and how that structure can be used to evaluate specific cases of this type of argumentation as fallacious or not.

  • Argumentation Schemes
    Argumentation Schemes

    Douglas Walton, Christopher Reed, Fabrizio Macagno. For Karen, Cathy, Franco, and Mirna, with love. Argumentation Schemes douglas walton University of Winnipeg chris reed University.

  • Arguments from Ignorance
    Arguments from Ignorance

    Case 4.10 POUSSAINT: Dr. COLE: POUSSAINT: Dr. COLE: POUSSAINT: Are breast implants safe? Yes. You can say that without qualification? Breast implants are safe, in as much as we count any sort of medical device as safe.

  • Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam
    Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam

    In recent times the study of the characteristics of this distinctive type of reasoning has been revived (Clarke 1985; ... This structure of reasoning involves an agent a who is assumed to have a goal G, and is considering a set of ...

  • Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning
    Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning

    Where a is an agent, A is an action, and G a goal, the two basic types of practical inferences are respectively, the necessary condition scheme and the sufficient condition scheme ... 6 See Clarke (1985), Audi (1989), and Walton (Pract.

  • Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation
    Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation

    Clarke, D. S. (1985). Practical Inferences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Collingwood, R. (1946). ... Ehrlich, E., Flexner, S., Carruth, G., and Hawkins, J. (1980). Oxford American Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity
    Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity

    [Rescher, 1964] Nicholas Rescher. Introduction to Logic. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1964. [Rescher, 1976] Nicholas Rescher. Plausible Reasoning. Van Gorcum, AssenAmsterdam, 1976. [Rescher, 1977] Nicholas Rescher. Dialectics.

  • Emotive Language in Argumentation
    Emotive Language in Argumentation

    ... and Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing. Rebuschi, Georges & Tuller, Laurice (eds.) (1999). The Grammar ofFocus. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:John Benjamins. Rescher, Nicholas ...

  • Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach
    Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach

    L. Goble (Oxford: Blackwell), 336–361. Huff, Darrel. 1954. How toLie with Statistics. ... King, John L.1979. 'Bivalence andthe Law ofExcluded Middle. ... Mann, WilliamC.1988. 'Dialogue Games: Conventions of Human Interaction.

  • The Place of Emotion in Argument
    The Place of Emotion in Argument

    Moore, James A., James A. Levin, and William C. Mann. 1977. A goal-oriented model of human dialogue . ... Perelman, Chaim, and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. 1969. The new rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation. Trans. John Wilkinson and Purcell ...

  • Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law
    Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law

    ... Studio Logica , 49 , 567-583 Mackie John L ( 1965 ) ' Causes and Conditions ' , American Philosophical Quarterly ... WR Swartout and WC Mann , Dordrecht , Kluwer , 3-48 Moore Johanna D ( 1995 ) Participating in Explanatory Dialogues ...

  • Character Evidence: An Abductive Theory
    Character Evidence: An Abductive Theory

    In the bean example, the hypothesis might work as an inference to the best explanation as follows. First there are the given data. I see the bean on the table near the bag. I know that the bag contains white beans.

  • Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats
    Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats

    86), itissuggested that thedisciple's speech actinthiscase may not even bean argument. So,whether itis an argumentor not,in Walton (Emotion, 1992, p.186),it is concluded that itisnot an ad baculum, inany event, because the discipleis ...

  • Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation
    Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation

    The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed.

  • Relevance in Argumentation
    Relevance in Argumentation

    This volume is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in those fields using argumentation theory--especially philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and communication studies, in addition to argumentation.

  • Scare Tactics
    Scare Tactics

    Scare Tactics