Warranting Assent - Case Studies in Argument Evaluation

This book brings together essays that demonstrate the art of argument evaluation. The essays apply a variety of theoretical approaches to specific, historically-situated arguments in order to render a specific normative judgment. By bringing to bear knowledge of argumentation theory along with expertise pertaining to the specific arguments under investigation, this book illustrates the utility of argument evaluation as a discrete mode of scholarly engagement.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Edward Schiappa is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication at Purdue University. He is the author of Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric and the editor of Landmark Essays on Classical Greek Rhetoric.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Edward Schiappa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.03.1995
• EAN: 9780791423639
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2363-9
• Seiten: 330
• Serien: SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; Suny Communication Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft