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Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

By: David Zarefsky, The Great Courses
Narrated by: David Zarefsky
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What is effective reasoning? And how can it be done persuasively? These questions have been asked for thousands of years, yet some of the best thinking on reasoning and argumentation is recent and represents a break from the past.

These 24 engaging lectures teach you how to reason, how to persuade others that what you think is right, and how to judge and answer the arguments of others - and how they will judge yours. Professor Zarefsky makes argumentation accessible and familiar by breaking it into five easy-to-understand components: The tools of formal logic, while essential and even definitive for mathematics and programming computers, are inadequate to decide most controversial issues.

This course shows more useful approaches. Arguments can be divided into three parts: a claim, evidence, and an inference linking the evidence to the claim. All arguments fall into a handful of distinctive categories, and the same issues are at stake each time one of these distinctive patterns occurs. Three kinds of evidence can be advanced to prove an argument that something is true: objective data, social consensus, and personal credibility. There are six kinds of inference that link evidence to a claim: example, cause, sign, analogy, narrative, and form. How to use and challenge each is explained.

Along the way, you'll look at numerous actual controversies with a perspective that allows you to see the structure of all disputes. In this way, argument becomes an exchange, not just a flurry of words.

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You'll love this. Toulmin is presented in solid detail- this isn't obvious from the blurb but his ideas and their application get a very thorough going over. This is argumentation and informal logic application for law, human rights, academia, science, social work, politics and just about anywhere else real arguments are constructed and let loose in the world.

Like informal logic and argumentation?

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Another good course for learning more about what you already know and reinforcing many key points. Go back over the course guide to cherry pick the highlights to reuse in life. Recommended.

More comprehensive than I first anticipated

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