The Teaching Company: Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition DVD course number 4294
This is the Teaching Company course number 4294 which has 4 DVDs and the course guide book.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 years-yet 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 MindThis 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 others-and 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. Course Lecture Titles1.	Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric2.	Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation3.	Formal and Informal Argumentation4.	History of Argumentation Studies5.	Argument Analysis and Diagramming6.	Complex Structures of Argument7.	Case Construction-Requirements and Options8.	Stasis-The Heart of the Controversy9.	Attack and Defense I10.	Attack and Defense II11.	Language and Style in Argument12.	Evaluating Evidence13.	Reasoning from Parts to Whole14.	Reasoning with Comparisons15.	Establishing Correlations16.	Moving from Cause to Effect17.	Commonplaces and Arguments from Form18.	Hybrid Patterns of Inference19.	Validity and Fallacies I20.	Validity and Fallacies II21.	Arguments between Friends22.	Arguments among Experts23.	Public Argument and Democratic Life24.	The Ends of Argumentation