| A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in such fields as philosophy, law, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, and speech communications. It explains how to evaluate the relevance of arguments, using examples and drawing on a new dialectical theory of relevance.
The purpose of this book is to present a method that can be used to assist a user
to critically evaluate arguments, and other moves in argumentation, for
relevance. The aim is to enable a critic to judge whether a move can justifiably
be said to be relevant or irrelevant. The method is based on case studies of
argumentation in which a criticism has been made that an argument, or part of
an argument, is irrelevant. The method is also based on a new theory of
relevance that incorporates techniques of argumentation theory, logic and
artificial intelligence. |
