The Zen of Argument Analysis: Reflections on Informal Logic's Argument Evaluation Contest

Reflections on Gödel’s Ontological Argument

Explanation and evidence in informal argument

A substantial body of evidence shows that people tend to rely too heavily on explanations when trying to justify an opinion. Some research suggests these errors may arise from an inability to distinguish between explanations and the evidence that bears upon them. We examine an alternative account, that many people do distinguish between explanations and evidence, but rely more heavily on unsubs...

Reflections on a Prominent Argument in the Wittgenstein Debate

Does the way authors treat their own works tell us something about how these works are to be understood? not necessarily. but then a standard argument against the “new Wittgenstein” comes under question. The argument is: the undogmatic interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus cannot be correct, since Wittgenstein himself later treats it as a work that holds certain positions. my response is: ...

The Evaluation of Argument Mapping

The current study compared the effects on comprehension and memory of learning via text versus learning via argument map. Argument mapping is a method of diagrammatic representation of arguments designed to simplify the reading of an argument structure and allow for easy assimilation of core propositions and relations. In the current study 400 undergraduate volunteers were presented with a colo...

Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument