From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild

Frans H. van Eemeren is President of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) and the International Learned Institute of  Argumentation Studies (ILIAS), Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (U.S.) and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lugano (Switzerland). He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and Guest Professor at Leiden University, Jiangsu University, Sun-yat Sen University and Zhejiang University. Van Eemeren is a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is founder of the Pragma-Dialectical theory of argumentation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Argumentation, the Journal of Argumentation in Context and the accompanying book series Library of Argumentation and Argumentation in Context. The monographs he (co)authored include Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions (1984), Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies (1992), Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse (1993), A Systematic Theory of Argumentation (2004), Argumentative Indicators in Discourse (2007), Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness (2009), Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse (2010), Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014), Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse (2015), Prototypical Argumentative Patterns in Discourse (2017) and Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective (2018).Bart Garssen is lecturer in the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric in the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include argument schemes, fallacies and political argumentation. Next to his dissertation in Dutch about argument schemes in a pragma-dialectical perspective, he published book chapters and articles about theoretical problems relating to the use of argument schemes, strategic manoeuvring in plenary debates in the European Parliament and argumentative patterns in political argumentative discourse. He is editor of the journal Argumentation and the Journal of Argumentation in Context (Benjamins) and the  accompanying book series Argumentation Library and Argumentation in Context.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Frans H. van Eemeren & Bart Garssen.- Chapter 2. Scheme Theory; Hans Vilhelm Hansen.- Chapter 3. Extending the Pragma-dialectical Approach to Argument Schemes; Frans H. van Eemeren & Bart Garssen.- Chapter 4. Give the Standard Treatment of Fallacies a Chance: A Rhetorical-pragmatic Proposal; Steve Oswald & Thierry Herman.- Chapter 5. Interrogative Burden of Proof in Philosophical Argumentation; Joaquin Galindo Castañeda.- Chapter 6. On the Necessity of Community Argument, Along with Inherent and Emerging Obstacles to it; Dale Hample.- Chapter 7. Argument Evaluation and Fallacies in Philosophical Dialogues: A Pragma-dialectical Approach; Federico E. López.- Chapter 8. Eudaimonistic Argumentation; Andrew Aberdein.- Chapter 9. Exclamatives in Argumentation; Ronny Boogaart.- Chapter 10. Assessing Connection Adequacy for Arguments with Institutional Warrants; James B. Freeman.- Chapter 11. On the Logical Ways to Counter an Argument: A Typology and Some Theoretical Consequences; Hubert Marraud.- Chapter 12. Arguing for Questions; David Hitchcock.- Chapter 13. The Mystery of the Interpretation: Less than a Second for Doing an “Argumentative” Abduction; Antonio Duarte.- Chapter 14. Is “Conductive Argument” a Single Argument?; Isabela Fairclough.- Chapter 15. On the Logical Reconstruction of Conductive Argument; Xie Yun.- Chapter 16. Are Conductive Arguments a Distinct type of Argument?; Liao Yanlin.- Chapter 17. Deploying Machine Learning Classifiers For Argumentative Relations "In The Wild”; Oana Cocarascu & Francesca Toni.