Modern Argumentation Theory

Interaction between Rhetoric and Dialectics in modern argumentation theory with a special emphasis on argumentation schemes, critical questions and the normative force of argumentation: Previous publications include a book length study on contemporary stasis theory and its implications for moral and legal argumentation. The main current project focuses on the development of a systematic model for the critical testing of reasonable claims (argument schemes and critical questions).

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Books
 
Argumentative Verteidigung. Grundlegung zu einer modernen Statuslehre - Argumentative Defense: Foundations for a Modern Theory of Stasis

Berlin: Weidler Verlag 2008

Reviewed in Argumentation 24, 4  (2010) by Matthias Plötz    
                                
Reviewed in Rhetorica 29, 2 (2011) by Christian Kock
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Schlüsselkompetenz Argumentation  - Argumentative Competence

Co-authored with Markus Herrmann, Jasmin Taraman & Karsten Stölzgen. Paderborn: UTB-Schöningh 2011. (2nd ed. forthcoming, Fall 2012)

Reviewed in: Achte Minute 11/2010 by Daniel Sommer
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Articles
 
2012

Review of Harald Wohlrapp’s ‘Der Begriff des Arguments’. 
In: Argumentation 26, 2 (2012). pp. 297-304.

2011

Genera Causarum and the burden of proof.
In: Cogency, Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation 3, 1 (2011). pp. 33-50.

Correlation and Causality. 
In: Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA). Ed. By Frank Zenker. Windsor, ON 2011. CD-ROM.

Reply to Robert Ennis.  
In: Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA). Ed. By Frank Zenker. Windsor, ON 2011. CD-ROM.

On the fallaciousness of the argumentum ad baculum. 
In: Proceedings of the sixth ISSA Conference on Argumentation. Ed. by Frans H. van Eemeren et al. Amsterdam: SicSat 2011. pp. 814-823.

2009

The Rule of Similarity as Intercultural Basis of Defeasible Argumentation . 
In: Argument Cultures: Proceedings of OSSA 09. Ed. by J. Ritola. Windsor, ON 2009. CD-ROM.

Commentary on Cristian Santibáñez Yáñez’s “Relevance, Argumentation and Presentational Devices” . 
In: Argument Cultures: Proceedings of OSSA 09. Ed. by J. Ritola. Windsor, ON 2009. CD-ROM.

2007

Dialectical Ideal and Dialectical Training.  
In: Proceedings of the fifth ISSA Conference on Argumentation. Ed. by Frans H. van Eemeren et al. Amsterdam: SicSat 2007. pp. 639-644.
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Talks
 
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA)

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2010 – On the fallaciousness of the argumentum ad baculum

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2006 – Dialectical ideal and dialectical training


Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study or Argumentation (OSSA)

Windsor (Canada) 2011 – Correlation and Causality

Windsor (Canada) 2009 – The Rule of Similarity 


Biennial Venice Conference on Argumentation 

Venice (Italy) 2008 – Deconstruction Argument Schemes


Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference

Winston-Salem (USA) 2010 – Genera causarum and the burden of proof


The Promise of Reason Conference – The New Rhetoric after 50 years

Eugene (USA) 2008 – The rule of justice in the New Rhetoric


Salzburg-Tübinger Rhetorikgespräche [Salzburg-Tübingen Dialogues on Rhetoric]  

Tübingen (Germany) 2010 – Kritische Argumentation [Argumentative Criticism]

Salzburg (Austria) 2009 – Effektivität und Ethik [Efficiency and Ethics]

Salzburg (Austria) 2006 – Moderne Disputation als Schule der Argumentation [Modern Disputation as Argumentative Training]


Conference of the International Association for Greek Philosophy

Kavala (Greece) 2006 – Decision Theory in John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice


International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment

Ljubljana (Slovenia) 2008 – On Three Kinds of Argumentative Responses

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