Controversy and Confrontation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse -- 1. Controversies as argumentative confrontations -- 2. Argumentative confrontations in a dialectical perspective -- 3. Connections between argumentation theory and the analysis of controversies -- 4. Exploring the prospects of joint efforts -- References -- Dichotomies and types of debate -- 1. Introduction* -- 2. Dichotomy and division -- 3. Plato's predicament -- 4. Dichotomies as strategic argumentative tools -- 5. Dichotomization and de-dichotomization in debate -- 5.1 Natural right vs. historicism -- 5.2 Fact vs. value -- 5.3 Combining dichotomization with de-dichotomization? -- 6. Dichotomization at the meta-level -- 7. De-dichotomization at the meta-level -- 8. Re-dichotomizing a de-dichotomized triad? -- References -- Charles Darwin versus George Mivart -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical tools -- 3. The concrete case -- 3.1 The problems -- 3.1.1 Darwin's problem -- 3.1.2 Mivart's problem -- 3.2 Answers -- 3.2.1 Darwin's answer -- 3.2.2 Mivart's answer -- 3.3 Motivations -- 3.3.1 Darwin's motivations -- 3.3.2 Mivart's motivations -- 3.4 Presuppositions -- 3.4.1 Darwin's presuppositions -- 3.4.2 Mivart's presuppositions -- 3.5 General argument -- 3.5.1 Darwin's general argument -- 3.5.2 Mivart's argument -- 3.6 Argumentative strategies -- 3.6.1 Darwin's argumentative strategies -- 3.6.2 Mivart's argumentative strategies -- 3.7 Objections and responses -- 3.7.1 Mivart's objections -- 3.7.2 Darwin's responses -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Scientific demarcation and metascience -- 1. The NAS and the Nature of Science -- 2. Climate change science in a metascientific vacuum: A hermeneutical thought experiment -- References.

Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The debate -- 3. Friedländer's arguments -- 3.1 The critique -- 3.2 The project -- 3.3 Vernűnftelei: Conversion and the "sophistic" rejection of religious ceremonies -- 4. Teller's answer: A polite rebuttal -- 5. Schleiermacher's refutation -- 5.1 The death of judaism -- 6. The freedom of religious choice -- 7. Controversy and debate in the age of reason: Strategies and realities -- References -- Communication principles for controversies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of communication principles -- 3. Properties of communication principles and their contexts of application -- 4. The principle of point-by-point refutation -- 5. Politeness principles -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. The pragmatic, rhetorical and dialectical uses of natural language in the practice of science -- 4. An example of scientific controversy -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion -- 1. Introduction* -- 2. Refutation and dissuasion in conflict situations -- 3. The Dissuasion Model -- 4. Culmination and crisis of the Dissuasion Model -- 5. A reforming ladder -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Responding to objections -- 1. Background: The Intuition* -- 2. Possible ways of responding to an objection -- 3. The identity of an argument -- 4. Some examples -- 5. The fertility of an argument -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility -- 1. Introduction* -- 2. Critical discussion -- 3. Inconsistency in a critical discussion -- 4. Rhetorical and dialectical aims in argumentative practice -- 5. Inconsistency in argumentative practice -- 6. Three uses of pointing out a pragmatic inconsistency.

7. Pointing out a pragmatic inconsistency as a form of strategic manoeuvring -- 8. Soundness conditions -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Reasonableness in confrontation -- 1. Aims -- 2. The conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules -- 3. The unreasonableness of ad hominem fallacies -- 4. The strategy of convergent operationalism -- 4.1 The first method: Adding ad hominem indicators -- 4.2 The second method: Manipulation of discussion contexts -- 4.3 The third method: Justifications of reasonableness judgments -- 4.4 The fourth method: Fallacious vs. non-fallacious personal attacks -- 4.5 The fifth method: A statistical removal of the co-variate politeness -- 5. An exploration: The relationship between reasonableness and persuasiveness -- References -- Managing disagreement space in multiparty deliberation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and analytic approach -- 2.1 The setting -- 2.2 The opening speech -- 2.3 Disagreement management -- 2.4 Commitments and obligations in proposing -- 2.5 Initiating and completing proposals -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Expanding disagreement in multi-party deliberation -- 3.2 Summary -- 3.3 Managing disagreement expansion in multiparty deliberation -- 3.4 Orienting to patterns for reasoning about proposals -- 3.5 Framing interaction and the meeting event -- 3.6 Re-framing the opening speech as an incomplete proposal -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. Predicaments -- 3. Case study: The controversy over the "science of abstinence" -- 3.1 Section by section commentary -- 3.2 Marburger's case -- 3.3 Managing the disagreement space around abstinence-only sex education -- 3.4 Managing the "politicization" disagreement space.

3.5 The complexity of interlocking disagreement spaces -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies -- 1. Science studies and rhetoric of science -- 2. Pera's 'rhetoric' of science -- 3. The pragma-dialectical potential for science studies -- 4. Terrains of applicability -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model -- 1. Incorporating argument-analysis into the study of scientific debates* -- 2. Background to the Newton-Lucas correspondence -- 3. Rhetorical accounts of the controversy -- 4. Shortcomings of rhetorical approaches and advantages of dialectical models -- 5. The reconstruction and analysis of Lucas' first letter: The issues -- 6. Earlier evaluations of Lucas's critique -- 7. Evaluating evaluations of historians -- 7.1 Issue (1): The elongation of the image -- 7.2 Issue (2): The shape of the image -- 7.3 Issue (3): The Newtonian theory -- 7.4 The role of experiments -- 7.5 Benefits of a detailed reconstruction -- 8. Newton's first answer -- 8.1 Responding to issues (1) and (2): Taking up the challenge -- 8.2 Difficulties of incorporating rhetorical insights in the pragma-dialectical model -- 9. Not responding to issue (3): Newton's manoeuvring -- 9.1 Radical contextualization of methodology -- 9.2 The opening stage - a precursor to the argumentation stage? -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Controversies.