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Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2007
We survey the contents of Finocchiaro's papers collected in Arguments about Arguments, pointing out, where appropriate, their expected interest for readers of Philosophy of the Social Sciences. The papers include essays about argument theory and reasoning, the nature of fallacies and fallaciousness, critiques of noteworthy contributions to ...
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We survey the contents of Finocchiaro's papers collected in Arguments about Arguments, pointing out, where appropriate, their expected interest for readers of Philosophy of the Social Sciences. The papers include essays about argument theory and reasoning, the nature of fallacies and fallaciousness, critiques of noteworthy contributions to ...
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Arguments and Counter-arguments: The Creation
2003By the eighteenth century few educated people would have regarded explanations that appealed to the activities of vital spirits as anything more than metaphorical, but it did not follow that mechanism and materialism were generally held to give an adequate account of nature.
Jennifer Trusted, Jennifer Trusted
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The Consequence argument and the Mind argument
Analysis, 2001Van Inwagen, like many other libertarians, is convinced by the argument. But there is a problem: one of the presuppositions of the Consequence argument seems to yield a powerful argument for the incompatibility of freedom and indeterminism, an argument van Inwagen calls the Mind argument.1 It seems, then, that what many have taken to provide the most ...
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, 2015
ions such as "culture" and "society" (Chapter 1). People are multivalent; society is balkanized into discourse domains. The relationship between individuals and social worlds cannot therefore be a simple, universal one.
C. Willard
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ions such as "culture" and "society" (Chapter 1). People are multivalent; society is balkanized into discourse domains. The relationship between individuals and social worlds cannot therefore be a simple, universal one.
C. Willard
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2004
This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus is on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. Creationists who advance this argument contend that evolution by natural selection cannot be the right explanation. The second design argument
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This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus is on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. Creationists who advance this argument contend that evolution by natural selection cannot be the right explanation. The second design argument
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Establishing the norms of scientific argumentation in classrooms
, 2000R. Driver, P. Newton, J. Osborne
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An Argument for Arguments in Science Classes
Phi Delta Kappan, 2010Science education has a problem. Science is deemed so important that all students must study the subject for many years and, in most states, schools are evaluated in part on their students' science achievement. Across the globe, sustaining the scientific and technological base of advanced economies is now of such concern that it has generated a ...
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Modelling argumentation and modelling with argumentation
Argumentation, 1990This paper discusses the epistemological and methodological bases of a scientific theory of meaning and proposes a detailed version of a formal theory of argumentation based on Anscombre and Ducrot's conception. Argumentation is shown to be a concept which is not exclusively pragmatic, as it is usually believed, but has an important semantic body.
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