Wohlrapp on the Criterial Side of Validity: Some Comments by Ralph H. Johnson

“…Harald Wohlrapp’s The Concept of Argument has made a significant contribution to the argumentation theory by proposing a new approach to our way of thinking about arguments and argumentation that in which he proposes a criterion of criterial validity: An thesis is valid, if there are no open objections against the justification offered for it. …”
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Auditory Arguments: The Logic of 'Sound' Arguments by Leo Groarke

“…I conclude that an understanding of auditory elements of argument can usefully expand the scope of informal logic and argumentation theory.…”
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Wohlrapp on the Criterial Side of Validity: Some Comments by Ralph H. Johnson

“…bstract: Harald Wohlrapp’s The Concept of Argument has made a significant contribution to the argumentation theory by proposing a new approach to our way of thinking about arguments and argumentation that in which he proposes a criterion of criterial validity: An thesis is valid, if there are no open objections against the justification offered for it. …”
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Virtue and Argument: Taking Character Into Account by Tracy Bowell, Justine Kingsbury

“…We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ways in which these virtues can be developed in ourselves and in others, virtue argumentation theory does not offer a plausible alternative definition of good argument.…”
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An Interactive Recommendation System for Decision Making Based on the Characterization of Cognitive Tasks by Teodoro Macias-Escobar, Laura Cruz-Reyes, César Medina-Trejo, Claudia Gómez-Santillán, Nelson Rangel-Valdez, Héctor Fraire-Huacuja

“…To our knowledge, most recommender systems that use argumentation theory are not proposed for multi-criteria optimization problems. …”
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The Coherence of Hamblin’s Fallacies by Ralph Johnson

“…Hamblin’s Fallacies remains one of the crucial documents in the development of informal logic and argumentation theory. His critique of traditional approaches to the fallacies (what he dubbed ‘The Standard Treatment’) helped to revitalize the study of fallacies. …”
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Al-Ashʿarī’s Adab al-jadal : A Few Remarks on its Genre by Abdessamad Belhaj

“…To date, the genre of al-Ashʿarī’s (d. 936 CE) Adab al-jadal as a document of Islamic argumentation theory remains unclear. Modern scholars paid little attention to this important document preserved in Ibn Fūrak (d. 1015 CE)’s Mujarrad maqālāt al-Ashʿarī. …”
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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation by Catherine Hundleby

“…My analysis of the textbooks shows that the Adversary Method operates as a Kuhnian paradigm in philosophy, and demonstrates that the popular fallacies pedagogy is authoritarian in being unresponsive to the scholarly developments in informal logic and argumentation theory. A progressive evolution for the fallacies approach is offered as an authoritative alternative.…”
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Witness Impeachment in Cross-Examination Using Ad Hominem Argumentation by Walton Douglas

“…This paper combines methods of argumentation theory and artificial intelligence to extend existing work on the dialectical structure of crossexamination. …”
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Argumentative Strategies and Stylistic Devices by Ton van Haaften

“…The extended pragma-dialectical argumentation theory assumes that people engaged in argumentative discourse manoeuvre strategically. …”
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Analysing Inference by Roksvold Thore

“…Tools for the analysis are both from argumentation theory and stylistics.…”
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Argumentative Support for Structured HACCP Plans by GROZA, A., LETIA, I. A.

“…The framework is built around concept maps and it exploits the integration of ontologies with argumentation theory by using the Argument Interchange Format ontology.…”
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Douglas Walton’s Contributions in Education by Chrysi Rapanta

“… Douglas Walton, perhaps the most prolific author in Argumentation theory, has been of a great influence in the fields of Informal logic, Artificial intelligence, and Law. …”
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The Paradox of Charity by Marcin Lewiński

“…The principle of charity is used in philosophy of language and argumentation theory as an important principle of interpretation which credits speakers with “the best” plausible interpretation of their discourse. …”
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Toward the Definition of Multimodal Argumentation by Kateryna Bura

“…Argumentation theory is a crucial discipline for the development of the modern world. …”
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Rooting Gilbert's Multi-Modal Argumentation in Jung, and Its Extension to Law by Marko Novak

“…This paper discusses how an understanding of Jung's psychological types is important for the relevance of Gilbert's multi-modal argumentation theory. Moreover, it highlights how the types have been confirmed by contemporary neuroscience and cognitive psychology. …”
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Exchanging Reasons: responses to critics by Lilian Bermejo-Luque

“…Each response is articulated on a main question, i.e., the distinction between regulative and constitutive normativity within Argumentation Theory’s models, the semantic appraisal of argumentation, the concept of justification, the differences between Toulmin’s model and my model of argument and the analysis of the pragmatic dimension of argumentation.…”
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Applying Communication Theories toward Designing Compliance-Gaining Techniques in Customer Dissatisfaction by Jonathan Matusitz, Gerald-Mark Breen

“…The purpose of this paper is to apply three communication theories (namely, Argumentation Theory, the Foot-in-the-Door Technique, and the Door-in-the-Face Technique) to the formulation of complaints that communicate effectively to company employees and yield compensation for the consumer. …”
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Emotional Backing and the Feeling of Deep Disagreement by Richard Friemann

“…The introduction of psychotherapy into argumentation theory raises the question of the extent to which ordinary arguers can use such techniques. …”
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Feminism, Argumentation and Coalescence by Michael A. Gilbert

“…This essay begins with a critique of the Critical-Logical model dominant in contemporary argumentation theory. The concerns raised stem primarily from considerations brought by several feminist thinkers including Carol Gilligan, Karen Warren, Deborah Tannen and, most especially, Andrea Nye. …”
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