Arguments and reason-giving

Arguments and reason-giving / Matthew W. McKeon.

Arguments figure in our everyday practices of giving reasons. For example, we use arguments to advance reasons to explain why we believe or did something, to justify our beliefs or actions, to persuade others to do or to believe something, and to advance reasons to worry or to fear that something is...

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Main Author: McKeon, Matthew W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Reasoning.
Philosophy: logic.
Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Arguments and Reason-Giving
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I: ARGUMENTS, INFERENCECLAIMS, AND REFLECTIVE INFERENCE
  • 2. Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 2.1. Preamble
  • 2.2. Arguing and Arguments
  • 2.2.1. Arguing
  • 2.2.2. Summary
  • 2.2.3. Argument
  • 2.2.4. Summary
  • 2.3. Arguments in Informal Logic, Argumentation Studies, and Formal Logic
  • 2.3.1. Arguments in Informal Logic
  • 2.3.2. Argumentation Studies
  • 2.3.3. Arguments in Formal Logic
  • 2.4. Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 2.4.1. Summary
  • 2.5. Conclusion
  • 3. Inference Claims
  • 3.1. Preamble
  • 3.2. Argument Claims and Uses of Arguments
  • 3.2.1. Summary
  • 3.3. The Connection between Inference Claims and Reason-​Giving Uses of Argument
  • 3.3.1. Inference Claims and Reasons for Believing
  • 3.3.2. Summary
  • 3.3.3. Dialectical Arguments and Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 3.3.4. Summary
  • 3.4. How, Exactly, Are Inference Claims Conveyed by One's Statement of an Argument?
  • 3.4.1. Mere Implication
  • 3.4.2. Conversational Implicature
  • 3.4.3. Conventional Implicature
  • 3.4.4. Assertion
  • 3.4.5. Summary
  • 3.5. Conclusion
  • 4. Reflective Inferences
  • 4.1. Preamble
  • 4.2. Critical Thinking
  • 4.2.1. Baseline Characterizations of Critical Thinking
  • 4.2.2. Summary
  • 4.2.3. Inference and Critical Thinking
  • 4.2.4. Summary
  • 4.3. Reflective Inferences and Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 4.4. Conclusion
  • PART II: FORMAL VALIDITY, RATIONAL PERSUASION, ARGUMENTATIVE RATIONALITY, INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, AND INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY
  • 5. Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments, Formally Valid Arguments, and Demonstrative Arguments
  • 5.1. Preamble
  • 5.2. Deductive Arguments, Demonstrative Arguments, and Reflective Inferences
  • 5.2.1. Summary
  • 5.3. Formally Valid Arguments and Demonstrative Arguments
  • 5.3.1. Summary
  • 5.4. Formally Valid Arguments and Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 5.4.1. Summary
  • 5.5. Demonstrative Arguments and Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 5.5.1. Summary
  • 5.6. Conclusion
  • 6. Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments, Invitations to Inference, and Rational Persuasion
  • 6.1. Preamble
  • 6.2. Invitations to Inference Are Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments
  • 6.2.1. Summary
  • 6.3. Invitations to Inference Invite Only the Inferences Expressed by the Arguments Used
  • 6.3.1. Summary
  • 6.4. Indirect Persuasion
  • 6.4.1. Summary
  • 6.5. Conclusion
  • 7. Reason-​Giving Uses of Arguments and Argumentative Rationality
  • 7.1. Preamble
  • 7.2. Reason for Belief and the Rationality of Belief
  • 7.2.1. Summary
  • 7.3. The Pragma-​epistemic Approach to Argumentative Rationality
  • 7.3.1. Summary
  • 7.4. The Epistemic and Pragma-​dialectic Approaches to Argumentative Rationality
  • 7.4.1. The Objective Epistemic Approach to Argumentative Rationality
  • 7.4.2. Summary

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