Fabrizio Macagno

Dr. Fabrizio Macagno

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22Years (2005-Present)

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4 August 2008
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Douglas Walton
CRChristopher Reed
Christopher Reed
FMFabrizio Macagno
Fabrizio Macagno
This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.

17 February 2014
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Fabrizio Macagno
DWDouglas Walton
Douglas Walton
This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between emotions, persuasion and meaning, and focusing on the implicit dimension of the use of a word and its dialectical effects. It offers a method for evaluating the persuasive and manipulative uses of emotive language in ordinary and political discourse. Through the analysis of political speeches (including President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize address) and legal arguments, the book offers a systematic study of emotive language in argumentation, rhetoric, communication, political science and public speaking.

1 March 2007 in The Knowledge Engineering Review
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Chris Reed
DWDouglas Walton
Douglas Walton
FMFabrizio Macagno
Fabrizio Macagno
In this paper, we present a survey of the development of the technique of argument diagramming covering not only the fields in which it originated — informal logic, argumentation theory, evidence law and legal reasoning — but also more recent work in applying and developing it in computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). Beginning with a simple example of an everyday argument, we present an analysis of it visualized as an argument diagram constructed using a software tool. In the context of a brief history of the development of diagramming, it is then shown how argument diagrams have been used to analyse and work with argumentation in law, philosophy and AI.

2 September 2015 in Argument & Computation
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Douglas Walton
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Fabrizio Macagno
A classification system for argumentation schemes. . ???aop.label???. doi: 10.1080/19462166.2015.1123772

1 January 2009 in Philosophy & Rhetoric
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Fabrizio Macagno
DWDouglas Walton
Douglas Walton
Analogy is one of the most common forms of reasoning in law (see Hage 2005). Through analogical reasoning, legal inference is drawn from one case [End Page 154] that has already been classified and is assessed to another case on the basis of similarity or dissimilarity. This form of argument is widely used to fill “the gap between facts and rule” (Weinreb 2005, 92). In other words, analogy is used to apply general legal rules to cases not directly falling under the classifications of the rule.