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16 lip 2021 · This entry provides an overview of the literature on argumentation drawing primarily on philosophical sources, but also engaging extensively with relevant sources from other disciplines.
- Historical Supplement
This Supplement presents argumentation as discussed in five...
- Feminist Perspectives on Argumentation
7. Feminism, the Discipline of Philosophy, and Argumentation...
- Susan Stebbing
Susan Stebbing was a leading figure in British philosophy...
- Fallacies
Mill’s examples are taken from a wide range of examples in...
- Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Aristotle’s Rhetoric has had an unparalleled influence on...
- Analogy and Analogical Reasoning
An analogy is a comparison between two objects, or systems...
- Culture and Cognitive Science
Woven throughout the entry are examples of how the cognitive...
- Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning
In some cases, however, the level of generality will not be...
- Historical Supplement
27 cze 2024 · Now that we have shown how in general to handle suppositions, we have explained how to extract arguments from their context and how to represent their structure in sufficient detail for us to be able to delve more deeply into the third part of the exercise – evaluating the soundness of an argument – for a wide range of important arguments.
9 sie 2022 · In a recent book, philosopher of science Goldenberg offers an in-depth investigation of vaccine hesitancy. She starts by discussing some widely held accounts of the phenomenon: the ‘ignorant public’, the ‘stubborn mind’, and the ‘death of expertise’.
This chapter argues that the notion of explanation relevant to the philosophy of science is that of an answer to a why-question. From this point of view it surveys most of the historically important theories of explanation. Hempel’s deductive-nomological, and inductive-statistical, models of explanation required explanations to cite laws.
28 paź 2011 · Within science, argumentation serves to expose and address inconsistencies among ideas and evidence; it is a central means by which the community assesses the promise of conjectures and the validity of claims.
A majority of philosophy of science papers illustrate what we called ‘philosophy on science’, that is, their aim is to contribute to our knowledge of the methods, concepts, objects, and problems of science, and/or to address philosophical problems using lessons taken from science.
4 paź 2013 · The article explores in general terms the nature of scientific argumentation in which the author-scientist makes claims, provides evidence to support these claims, and develops chains of scientific reasoning to coordinate claims and evidence.
