Introduction -- LOGICAL AND DIALECTICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Probative Logic: Review & Preview -- 2 Logic to Some Purpose: Theses against the Deductive-Nomological Paradigm in the Science of Logic -- 3 Logic Naturalized: Recovering a Tradition -- 4 Beyond Induction and Deduction -- 5 Meaning Postulates and Rules of Argumentation: Remarks Concerning the Pragmatic Tie between Meaning (of Terms) and Truth (of Propositions) -- 6 Arab Dialecticians on Rational Discussion -- RHETORETICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 7 An Historical Approach to the Study of Argumentation -- 8 Argument and Usable Traditions -- 9 The Rhetorical Perspective on Argument -- 10 Rhetorical Communication as Argumentation -- 11 Argumentation without Proposition -- 12 Generational Argument -- 13 Valuing Dissensus -- 14 Rescher on Pascal's Wager Argument -- 15 Argumentation and Narrativity -- PRAGMATIC AND CONVERSATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 16 The Function of Argumentation: A Pragmatic Approach -- 17 Argumentation, Inquiry and Speech Act Theory -- 18 For Reason's Sake: Maximal Argumentative Analysis of Discourse -- 19 Rational and Pragmatic Aspects of Argument -- 20 The Management of Disagreement in Conversation -- 21 Identity Management in Argumentative Discourse -- 22 Measuring Argumentative Competence -- 23 Some Figures of Speech -- ARGUMENTATION ANALYSIS, EVALUATION AND FALLACIES -- 24 Towards a Typology of Argumentative Schemes -- 25 Enthymematic Arguments -- 26 Argument Evaluation -- 27 Naess's Dichotomy of Tenability and Relevance -- 28 Rescher's Plausibility Thesis and the Justification of Arguments: A Critical Appraisal -- 29 What is a Fallacy? -- 30 Some Fallacies about Fallacies -- 31 Ad Baculum, Self-Interest and Pascal's Wager -- APPLICATIONS OF ARGUMENTATION THEORY -- 32 Rational Argumentation and Political Deception.

33 Evolution of Judicial Argument in Free Expression Cases -- 34 Argumentation in English and Finnish Editorials -- 35 Critical Thinking in the Strong Sense and the Role of Argumentation in Everyday Life -- 36 Informal Logic and the Deductive-Inductive Distinction -- 37 Arguments and Explanations -- List of Contributors.