In:Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Controversies 6] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 17 December 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/cvs.6.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
List of contributors
Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse
Dichotomies and types of debate
Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science
Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution
Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context
Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective
On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies
A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion
Responding to objections
Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility
Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies
Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation
Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education
Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies
Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence
Index
