The aesthetics of argument

The aesthetics of argument / Martin Warner.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent. Martin Warner explores how this relationship bears on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion. He argues that the rationality of argument is not only a matter of deductive validity, but can be assessed in terms of criteria drawn from...

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Main Author: Warner, Martin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reasoning.
Logic.
Imagination.
Imagination
Logic
Reasoning
Argumentation
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Aesthetics of Argument; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Dialectic, Rhetoric, and Poetics; Acknowledgements; 1: From Analogy to Narrative; 1. A Parabolic Transition; 2. Modes of Analogical Argument; 2.1 Inductive modes; 2.2 A priori modes; 2.3 The metaphorical projection; 3. The Resort to Narrative; 4. Parabolic Finesse; 2: From Self-Involvement to Judgement: The Potentialities of Plato's Phaedrus; 1. The Language of the Cave; 2. The Rhetoric of the Phaedrus; 3. The Question of Judgement; 3: Dialectical Drama: The Dynamics of Plato's Symposium; 1. Drama as Dialectic
  • 2. Rhetoric and Sensibility3. The Dynamics of the Dialogue; 4. Dialectic and Sensibility; 4: Philosophical Autobiography: St. Augustine and John Stuart Mill; 1. Underlying Concepts; 1.1 Philosophical; 1.2 Autobiography; 1.3 Philosophical autobiography; 2. The Confessions of St. Augustine; 3. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill; 4. Story and Theory; 5: The Fourth Gospel's Art of Rational Persuasion; 1. Purpose; 2. Criticism; 3. Narrative; 4. Judgement; 5. Signs; 6. Transformation; 6: Philosophical Poetry: The Case of Four Quartets; 1. Poetry and Belief; 2. 'Burnt Norton'
  • 3. The Later Quartets4. Understanding; 7: The "Logic" of Imagery I: The Poetic Image; 1. Imagination, Concept, and Argument; 2. The "Romantic Image"; 3. Image and Symbol; 4. Imagery and "Movement"; 8: The "Logic" of Imagery II: Logic, Argument, and Imagery; 1. Exploring the Logical Analogy; 2. Poetry and Argument; 3. Beyond Poetry; Afterword; 1. Language, Truth, and Logic; 2. From Narrative to Image; Bibliography; Index

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