Arguing on the Toulmin Model

by Hitchcock, David; Verheij, Bart

• ISBN13: 9781402049378
• ISBN10: 1402049374
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin's model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees' comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin's ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Reasoning in theory and practice	p. 25
A citation-based reflection on Toulmin and argument	p. 31
Complex cases and legitimation inference : extending the Toulmin model to deliberative argument in controversy	p. 39
A metamathematical extension of the Toulmin agenda	p. 49
Toulmin's model of argument and the question of relativism	p. 71
Systematizing Toulmin's warrants : an epistemic approach	p. 87
Warranting arguments, the virtue of verb	p. 103
Evaluating inferences : the nature and role of warrants	p. 115
'Probably'	p. 145
The voice of the other : a dialogico-rhetorical understanding of opponent and of Toulmin's rebuttal	p. 165
Evaluating arguments based on Toulmin's scheme	p. 181
Good reasoning on the Toulmin model	p. 203
The fluidity of warrants : using the Toulmin model to analyse practical discourse	p. 219
Artificial intelligence & law, logic and argument schemes	p. 231
Multiple warrants in practical reasoning	p. 247
The quest for rationalism without dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin	p. 261
From arguments to decisions : extending the Toulmin view	p. 273
Using Toulmin argumentation to support dispute settlement in discretionary domains	p. 289
Toulmin's model and the solving of ill-structured problems	p. 303
Arguing by question : a Toulminian reading of Cicero's account of the enthymeme	p. 313
The uses of argument in mathematics	p. 327
Translating Toulmin diagrams : theory neutrality in argument representation	p. 341
The Toulmin test : framing argumentation within belief revision theories	p. 359
Eight theses reflecting on Stephen Toulmin	p. 379
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