In:Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
[Argumentation in Context 23] 2026
► pp. vii–viii
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I.Profiles of dialogue and fallacies
Chapter 1.Can we ever pin one down to a formal fallacy?
Chapter 2.Who is afraid of figure of speech?
Chapter 3.The dialectic of quasi-logical arguments
Chapter 4.Profiles of dialogue as a dialectical tool
Chapter 5.Aristotle’s On Sophistical Refutations
Chapter 6.That’s no argument! The dialectic of non-argumentation
Erik C. W. Krabbe
Jan Albert van Laar
Part II.Theoretical issues
Chapter 7.The problem of retraction in critical discussion
Chapter 8.Meeting in the house of Callias: An historical perspective on rhetoric and dialectic
Chapter 9.Metadialogues
Chapter 10.The pragmatics of deductive arguments
Chapter 11.On how to get beyond the opening stage
Chapter 12.Cooperation and competition in argumentative exchanges
Chapter 13.The burden of criticism: Consequences of taking a critical stance
Jan Albert van Laar
Erik C. W. Krabbe
Part III.Formal systems for dialogues
Chapter 14.Formal systems of dialogue rules
Chapter 15.Topical roots of formal dialectic
Chapter 16.The formalization of critical discussion
Part IV.Arguments in context
Chapter 17.Arguments, proofs, and dialogues
Chapter 18.Strategic maneuvering in mathematical proofs
Chapter 19.Fair and unfair strategies in public controversies
Jan Albert van Laar
Erik C. W. Krabbe
Chapter 20.Be reasonable! How to be an optimist in the ‘age of unreason’
Erik C. W. Krabbe
Jan Albert van Laar
