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Free Download Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory: Twenty Exploratory Studies By Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen (auth.), Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen (eds.)
2012 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 9400740409 | PDF | 4 MB
Topical Themes in Argumentation Theorybrings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory. The essays are based on papers that were presented at the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) in Amsterdam in June 2010. They give an impression of the nature and the variety of the kind of research that has recently been carried out in the study of argumentation.The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.The volume starts with three essays that provide stimulating theoretical perspectives on argumentation. Subsequently, some views are explained on the intriguing topics of ‘dissensus’ and ‘deep disagreement’. After a discussion of three different approaches to the treatment of types of argumentation some classical themes from antique argumentation theory are revisited. The new research area of visual argumentation is explored in the next part. The volume concludes with three reports of experimental studies concerning argumentative discourse.

Free Download Enrique Suárez-Iñiguez, "The Power of Argumentation: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars"
English | 2007 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 9042022876 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This book is a collection of essays on the philosophy of Karl Popper written by some outstanding contributors from all the world around. Most of them are Popperians, some were Sir Karl s students in his famous seminar at the London School of Economics and his research assistants. All have written books or papers on Popper s philosophy and are notable professors at their universities. So, from a well-acquainted view of Poppers philosophy the book deals with present day philosophical problems and offers interesting interpretations. The first part is devoted to political philosophy and the second to philosophy of science. The volume is of interest for all those concerned not only in Popper s philosophy but also in some the main scientific and political problems of today.

Free Download John P. Nordin, "Argumentation Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032541229 | 2024 | 378 pages | EPUB, PDF | 960 KB + 25 MB
This extensively updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to argumentation skills for undergraduates.

Free Download Andreas Herzig, "Logic and Argumentation: 5th International Conference, CLAR 2023, Hangzhou, China, September 10-12, 2023, Proceedings "
English | ISBN: 3031408748 | 2023 | 245 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation, CLAR 2023, held in Hangzhou, China, during September 10-12, 2023.

Free Download Andreas Herzig, "Logic and Argumentation: 5th International Conference, CLAR 2023, Hangzhou, China, September 10-12, 2023, Proceedings "
English | ISBN: 3031408748 | 2023 | 245 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation, CLAR 2023, held in Hangzhou, China, during September 10-12, 2023.

Free Download Sibel Erduran, María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre, "Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-Based Research"
English | 2007 | pages: 295 | ISBN: 1402066694, 9402413111 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Our conversations about arguments began in Nashville in the Spring of 1996 in Richard Duschl’s doctoral seminar that we were both attending, Marilar Jiménez-Aleixandre as a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University. Jiménez-Aleixandre and Duschl were designing authentic problems in genetics for the University of Santiago de Compostela-based RODA project aimed at engaging high school students in argumentation. Erduran and Duschl had been working on Project SEPIA extending their work in Pittsburgh schools to the design of curricula that support epistemological aspects of scientific inquiry including argumentation. In that spring we attended a NARST s- sion in St Louis, where Gregory Kelly, Steven Druker and Catherine Chen presented a paper about argumentation. As a consequence, a symposium about argumentation was organised (possibly the first of its kind) at the 1997 NARST meeting in Chicago, including papers from Kelly and colleagues and from Jiménez-Aleixandre, Bugallo and Duschl. The symposium was attended, among others, by Rosalind Driver, who had just submitted an application for funding of an argumentation project based at King’s College London, a project Erduran would incidentally work on after Driver’s untimely death. From this time frame in the 1990s to the present day, argumentation studies in science education have increased at a rapid pace, from stray papers for which we were unable to find an appropriate strand in a conference, to a wealth of research base exploring ever more sophisticated issues.

Free Download Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation: Theory, Practice and Research By Jonathan Osborne, Anna MacPherson, Alexis Patterson, Evan Szu (auth.), Myint Swe Khine (eds.)
2012 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 9400724691 | PDF | 5 MB
Argumentation-arriving at conclusions on a topic through a process of logical reasoning that includes debate and persuasion- has in recent years emerged as a central topic of discussion among science educators and researchers. There is now a firm and general belief that fostering argumentation in learning activities can develop students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills, and that dialogic and collaborative inquiries are key precursors to an engagement in scientific argumentation. It is also reckoned that argumentation helps students assimilate knowledge and generate complex meaning. The consensus among educators is that involving students in scientific argumentation must play a critical role in the education process itself. Recent analysis of research trends in science education indicates that argumentation is now the most prevalent research topic in the literature. This book attempts to consolidate contemporary thinking and research on the role of scientific argumentation in education. Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation brings together prominent scholars in the field to share the sum of their knowledge about the place of scientific argumentation in teaching and learning. Chapters explore scientific argumentation as a means of addressing and solving problems in conceptual change, reasoning, knowledge-building and the promotion of scientific literacy. Others interrogate topics such as the importance of language, discursive practice, social interactions and culture in the classroom. The material in this book, which features intervention studies, discourse analyses, classroom-based experiments, anthropological observations, and design-based research, will inform theoretical frameworks and changing pedagogical practices as well as encourage new avenues of research.

Free Download Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation by Chris Reed, Timothy J. Norman
English | PDF (True) | 2004 | 258 Pages | ISBN : 1402018118 | 28.9 MB
In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term ‘argumentation’ within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al’s interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of ten inspired) guesswork, and that a great majority of the AI community were unaware that there was a maturing, rich field of research in Argumentation Theory (and Critical Thinking and Informal Logic) that had been steadily re building a scholarly approach to the area over the previous twenty years or so. Argumentation Theory, on its side; was developing theories and approaches that many in the field felt could have a role more widely in research and soci ety, but were for the most part unaware that AI was one of the best candidates for such application.

Free Download Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology: Conceptual and Computational Approaches
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031371550 | 333 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures.

Free Download Douglas N. Walton, "Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation"
English | 2007 | pages: 327 | ISBN: 9027218854 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to other agents. Such agents also reason with each other when they engage in negotiation and persuasion. It is shown in this book that critical argumentation is best represented in this framework by the model of reasoned argument called a dialog, in which two or more parties engage in a polite and orderly exchange with each other according to rules governed by conversation policies. In such dialog argumentation, the two parties reason together by taking turns asking questions, offering replies, and offering reasons to support a claim. They try to settle their disagreements by an orderly conversational exchange that is partly adversarial and partly collaborative.