Pondering on Problems of Argumentation

Argumentative Strategies.- Seizing the Occasion: Parameters for Analysing Ways of Strategic Manoeuvring.- Manoeuvring Strategically with Rhetorical Questions.- Dissociation: Between Rhetorical Success and Dialectical Soundness.- Strategies of Refutation by Definition: A Pragma-Rhetorical Approach to Refutations in a Public Speech.- Norms of Reasonableness and Fallaciousness.- Nonfallacious Rhetorical Design in Argumentation.- Normatively Responsible Advocacy: Some Provocations from Persuasion Effects Research.- Duets, Cartoons, and Tragedies: Struggles with the Fallacy of Composition.- Deductivism and the Informal Fallacies.- Types of Argument and Argument Schemes.- From Figure to Argument: Contrarium in Roman Rhetoric.- Comparing the Incomparable: Figurative Analogies in a Dialectical Testing Procedure.- Argument Schemes Typologies in Practice: The Case of Comparative Arguments.- Whether and How Classical Topics can be Revived Within Contemporary Argumentation Theory.- Structure of Argumentation.- Against Making the Linked-Convergent Distinction.- Argument Strength, the Toulmin Model, and Ampliative Probability.- Modalities as Indicators in Argumentative Reconstruction.- Five Theses on Toulmin and Visual Argument.- Rules for Advocacy and Discussion.- On How to Get Beyond the Opening Stage.- Testing for Acceptable Premises Within Systems of Belief.- The Duties of Advocacy: Argumentation Under Conditions of Disparity, Asymmetry, and Difference.- Actually Existing Rules for Closing Arguments.