Argumentation the study of effective reasoning / [sound recording] :
Study of effective reasoning Argumentation, the study of effective reasoning
David Zarefsky.
- 2nd ed.
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2005.
- 12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
- The great courses .
- Great courses (Compact disc) .
Compact discs. "Course No. 9294." "Philosophy & intellectual history."--Container. Accompanying course guidebooks include a glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
Introducing argumentation and rhetoric. Underlying assumptions of argumentation. -- Formal and informal argument. History of argumentation studies. -- Argument analysis and diagramming. Complex structures of argument. -- Case construction: requirements and options. Statis: the heart of the controversy. -- Attack and defense I. Attack and defense II. -- Language and style in argument. Evaluating evidence. Part 1: disc 1. Lecture 1. Lecture 2. disc 2. Lecture 3. Lecture 4. disc 3. Lecture 5. Lecture 6. disc 4. Lecture 7. Lecture 8. disc 5. Lecture 9. Lecture 10. disc 6. Lecture 11. Lecture 12. Reasoning from parts to whole. Reasoning with comparisons. -- Establishing correlations. Moving from cause and effect. -- Commonplaces and arguments from form. Hybrid patterns of inference. -- Validity and fallacies I. Validity and fallacies II. -- Arguments between friends. Arguments among experts. -- Public argument and democratic life. The ends of argumentation. Part 2: disc 7. Lecture 13. Lecture 14. disc 8. Lecture 15. Lecture 16. disc 9. Lecture 17. Lecture 18. disc 10. Lecture 19. Lecture 20. dics 11. Lecture 21. Lecture 22. disc 12. Lecture 23. Lecture 24.
Lecturer: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University.
Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.