Informal fallacies: towards a theory of argument criticisms

1. Chapter 1: A New Model of Argument
 2. 1. Introduction to the Fallacies
 3. 2. Some More Fallacies
 4. 3. Fallacies Combined in Realistic Dialogues
 5. 4. What is an Argument?
 6. 5. Criticism as Challenge and Response
 7. 6. Basic Categories of Argument Study
 8. Notes: Chapter 1
 9. Chapter 2: Hot Rhetoric and Argument
 10. 1. Appeals to Popular Sentiment
 11. 2. Appeals to Force
 12. 3. Appeals to Pity
 13. 4. Overly Personal Argumentation
 14. 5. The Rhetorical Debate
 15. 6. Case Study: Parliamentary Debate
 16. 7. Conclusion
 17. Notes: Chapter 2
 18. Chapter 3: The Logic of Propositions
 19. 1. Deductive Validity
 20. 2. Formal Logic
 21. 3. Classical Propositional Calculus
 22. 4. Applying Deductive Logic to Arguments
 23. 5. Invalidity and Fallaciousness
 24. 6. Relevance and Validity
 25. 7. Subject-Matter Relatedness
 26. 8. Relatedness Logic
 27. 9. Semantics and Pragmatics
 28. 10. What is a Fallacy?
 29. Notes: Chapter 3
 30. Chapter 4: Logical Dialogue-Games
 31. 1. Different Approaches to Formal Dialogues
 32. 2. The Ad Ignorantiam Fallacy
 33. 3. Fallacies of Question-Asking
 34. 4. The Fallacy of Many Questions
 35. 5. Demanding Direct Answers to Questions
 36. 6. Misconception of Refutation
 37. 7. Case Studies of Political Debates
 38. 8. A Game with Dark-Side Commitments
 39. Notes: Chapter 4
 40. Chapter 5: Enthymemes
 41. 1. The Tradition of Enthymemes
 42. 2. The Objectives of Dialogue
 43. 3. Veiled Commitment-Sets
 44. 4. Strategy and Plausibility
 45. 5. The Problem Resolved
 46. 6. Order of the Premisses
 47. 7. Multiple Premisses in Complex Arguments
 48. Notes: Chapter 5
 49. Chapter 6: Longer Sequences of Argumentation
 50. 1. Sequences of Argumentation
 51. 2. Graphs of Arguments
 52. 3. Case Study: Argument on Sex Education
 53. 4. Case Study: Circular Argumentation
 54. 5. Plausibility Conditions on Arguments
 55. 6. The Missing Links
 56. 7. Conclusions on Circular Arguments
 57. Notes: Chapter 6
 58. Chapter 7: Fallacious Arguments From Authority
 59. 1. How Appeals to Authority Can Go Wrong
 60. 2. Plausible Argument
 61. 3. Where Experts Disagree
 62. 4. Expertise and Legal Dialogue
 63. 5. Dialogue and Expertise
 64. 6. Conclusions
 65. Notes: Chapter 7
 66. Chapter 8: Various Fallacies
 67. 1. Inductive Fallacies
 68. 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments
 69. 3. Post Hoc Arguments
 70. 4. Slippery Slope
 71. 5. Equivocation
 72. 6. Amphiboly
 73. 7. Composition and Division
 74. Chapter 9: Arguments Against the Person
 75. 1. Poisoning the Well
 76. 2. The Sportsman\'s Rejoinder
 77. 3. Evaluating Ad Hominem Disputations
 78. 4. Four Types of Circumstantial Ad Hominem
 79. 5. Rhetorical Context of Ad Hominem Attacks
 80. 6. Positional Defensibility
 81. 7. Conclusion
 82. Notes: Chapter 9
 83. Chapter 10: Equivocation
 84. 1. What is Equivocation?
 85. 2. Vagueness and Criticisms of Equivocality
 86. 3. The Problem of Subtle Equivocations
 87. 4. Deep Deception and Equivocal Dialogue
 88. 5. Many-Valued Logic for Equivocators
 89. 6. Priests\'s System LP
 90. 7. Applying LP to the Fallacy of Equivocation
 91. 8. R-Mingle as a Logic for Equivocators
 92. 9. RM and Equivocation
 93. 10. Conclusions
 94. Notes: Chapter 10
 95. Chapter 11: Informal Logic as a Discipline
 96. 1. The Role of Formal Logic
 97. 2. Dialectic as a Theory of Argument
 98. 3. Function of Why-Questions
 99. 4. Subject-Specific Nature of Arguments
 100. 5. Case Studies on Circular Reasoning
 101. 6. Conversational Pragmatics
 102. 7. Pedagogical Directions for Informal Logic
 103. Notes: Chapter 11
 104. Bibliography
 105. Index