Commitment in Dialogue - Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning

Develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies.

About the author

Douglas N. Walton is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation, also published by SUNY Press and The Place of Emotion in Argument. Erik C. W. Krabbe is Associate Professor of Logic and Argumentation Theory in the Philosophy Department at Groningen University. He is the coauthor of From Axiom to Dialogue: A Philosophical Study of Logics and Argumentation, and coeditor of Logic and Political Culture: Proceedings of the Colloquium 'Logic and Politics', Amsterdam 19-22 February 1990 and Empirical Logic and Public Debate: Essays in Honour of Else M. Barth.

Product details

• Authors: Erick C. Krabbe, Erik C W Krabbe, Erik C. W. Krabbe, Douglas Walton, Douglas N Walton, Douglas N. Walton
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.1995
• EAN: 9780791425862
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2586-2
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 227 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Suny Logic and Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works