Learn the fundamentals of argumentation and build a foundation for communication and reasoning that will benefit you in every area of your life.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric
- 02: Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation
- 03: Formal and Informal Argumentation
- 04: History of Argumentation Studies
- 05: Argument Analysis and Diagramming
- 06: Complex Structures of Argument
- 07: Case Construction-Requirements and Options
- 08: Stasis-The Heart of the Controversy
- 09: Attack and Defense I
- 10: Attack and Defense II
- 11: Language and Style in Argument
- 12: Evaluating Evidence
- 13: Reasoning from Parts to Whole
- 14: Reasoning with Comparisons
- 15: Establishing Correlations
- 16: Moving from Cause to Effect
- 17: Commonplaces and Arguments from Form
- 18: Hybrid Patterns of Inference
- 19: Validity and Fallacies I
- 20: Validity and Fallacies II
- 21: Arguments between Friends
- 22: Arguments among Experts
- 23: Public Argument and Democratic Life
- 24: The Ends of Argumentation
Taught by
David Zarefsky
