Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning Parts I & II: Course Guidebook on 12 Cassettes
by Professor David Zarefsky
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Author: Professor David ZarefskyEdition: Audio Cassette
Published: 2001
ISBN: N/A
Publisher: The Teaching Company
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24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture Taught by David Zarefsky Northwestern University Ph.D., Northwestern University Reasoning, tested by doubt, is argumentation. We do it, hear it, and judge it every day. We do it in our own minds, and we do it with others. What is effective reasoning? And how can it be done persuasively? These questions have been asked for thousands of yearsyet some of the best thinking on reasoning and argumentation is very new and represents a break from the past. At the Center of a Well-Educated Mind This is equally a course in argument and in reasoning. This course teaches how to reason. It teaches how to persuade others that what you think is right. And it teaches how to judge and answer the arguments of othersand how they will judge yours. Your guide to these issues is Professor David Zarefsky, the Owen L. Coon Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication at Northwestern University. The study of argumentation was once one of the seven liberal arts, at the very core of humane learning. In recent centuries, rhetoric has been stripped of its intellectual dimension and come to mean empty talk; formal logic has edged out discursive reasoning in many philosophy departments. Professor Zarefsky suggests that this has been an error: "The first thing that we should do is to cast aside the popular stereotype which sees argumentation as a form of quarrelsomenessa love of bickering for its own sake. In fact, argumentation is something far more important and worthwhile than that. "It grows out of our nature as human beings. It is the study of how we go about giving effective reasons for our beliefs and actions in an uncertain world where the right belief or action is often far from obvious." Professor Zarefsky explains that argumentation studies went through a refocusing in the second half of the 20th century.
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