Overview

For this volume the editors commissioned the top theorists in argumentation and hu­man communication to submit essays in their areas of specialization. Because there are sixteen essays contrib­uted by twenty-one specialists, many points of view are represented in this volume; all of the essayists, however, look upon argumen­tation as a process of human communication, not a species of formal logic. These essayists see the function of argument as a method of attaining social knowledge. The editors have assembled this volume to make available the latest advances in argumentation; for schol­ars it serves as a ""state of the discipline"" report. The editors have divided the book into four sections: ""Conceptual Foundations,"" ""Reasoning and Reasonableness,"" ""Meth­odological Issues,"" and ""Uses of Argument."" Those contributing under the heading ""Con­ceptual Foundations"" are: Daniel J. O'Keefe, Charles Arthur Willard, Ray D. Dearin, and Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. Contributors to the ""Reasoning and Rea­sonableness"" section are: Ray E. McKerrow, Thomas B. Farrell, Barbara J. O'Keefe, Pam­ela J. Benoit, Malcolm O. Sillars, and Patricia Ganer. Under ""Methodological Issues"" the contributors are: Scott Jacobs, Sally Jackson, V. William Balthrop, and Dale Hample. Contributors to ""Uses of Argument"" are: Ch. Perelman, E. Culpepper Clark, Robert P. Newman, Walter R. Fisher, Richard A. Fil­loy, and Richard D. Rieke. Reference list prepared by Glenda Rhodes and Jack Rhodes.

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J. Robert Cox is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Charles Arthur Willard is Assistant Professor of Speech at the University of Pittsburgh.

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