Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Erik C.W. Krabbe, Renée José Dalitz, and Pier A. Smit -- Introduction / Erik C.W. Krabbe, Renée José Dalitz, and Pier A. Smit -- Chapter 1 Needing Each other for Knowledge: Reflections on Trust and Testimony / Trudy Govier -- Chapter 2 Secundum Quid as A Research Programme / John Woods -- Chapter 3 On The Fourfold Root of The Argumentum Ad Hominem / Gabriël Nuchelmans -- Chapter 4 The History of The Argumentum Ad Hominem Since The Seventeenth Century / Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst -- Chapter 5 Debate in A Bermuda Triangle of Medical Ethics / L. Sara van Epenhuysen -- Chapter 6 Reasonable Argument and Fallacies in The Kok-Stekelenburg Debate / Erik C.W. Krabbe -- Chapter 7 Some Weak Links in The Great Chain of Being / John D. North -- Chapter 8 ‘You Assert This?’ An Empirical Study of Weight-Expressions / Arne Næss -- Chapter 9 Gerrit Mannoury on The Communicative Functions of Negation in Ordinary Language / Rob Wiche -- Chapter 10 Default and Dogma / Jaap Hoepelman and Toine van Hoof -- Chapter 11 On The Logic of Nonmoral Commitment / Charles Goossens -- Chapter 12 Arguments Founded on Creative Definitions / Witold Marciszewski -- Chapter 13 Cognitive Science and Connectionism: Friend and Enemy or Move and Counter-Move, an Application of Empirical Logic / René Jorna -- Chapter 14 Dialectical Fields and Manifest Rationality / Ralph H. Johnson -- Chapter 15 Reason Which Cannot be Reasoned With; What is Public Debate and How Does it Change? / Peter du Preez -- Chapter 16 Logic, Democracy, and Mosca / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Chapter 17 The Logic of Virtue and Terror / Pier A. Smit -- Chapter 18 On Obstacles to Public Debate / Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh -- Chapter 19 Real-Life Mathematics Versus Ideal Mathematics: The Ugly Truth / Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- Chapter 20 The Road of Being and The Exclusion of The Feminine / Vigdis Songe-Møller -- Chapter 21 The Subjection of Women in The Contractual Society / Renée José Dalitz -- Chapter 22 Anti-Semitism and Anti-Feminism Again: The Dissemination of Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character in The Seventies and Eighties / Hannelore Schröder -- Chapter 23 Traditional Spheres and Traditionalist Logic / Janet Radcliffe Richards.

Empirical Logic and Public Debate supplies a large number of previously unpublished papers that together make up a survey of recent developments in the field of empirical logic. It contains theoretical contributions, some of a more formal and some of an informal nature, as well as numerous contemporary and historical case studies. The book will therefore be attractive both to those who wish to focus upon the theory and practice of discussion, debate, arguing, and argument, as well as to those readers who are primarily interested in applications to a particular field, such as ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, or the history of philosophy.

English

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