Claims and Reasons: The Essential Questions LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS
Claims and Reasons: The Essential Questions
This volume of Everyday Logic and Better Decisions approaches Claims and Reasons from the standpoint of 'The Essential Questions'. It emphasizes how to open with a genuinely contestable question and provides a structured route to a clearly reconstructed argument with credible objections and replies.
Contents
Introduction — Claims and Reasons: The Essential Questions (Everyday Logic and Better Decisions) 1. The Question Raised by Claims and Reasons 2. Clarifying Concepts and Assumptions — the implications of the essential questions 3. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives — evidence surrounding claims and reasons 4. Reconstructing a Major Argument — a case framed by the essential questions 5. The Strongest Alternative Position — an inquiry into claims and reasons 6. The The Essential Questions Investigation 7. A Thought Experiment and Its Limits — evidence surrounding claims and reasons 8. Examples from Human Life — a case framed by the essential questions 9. Serious Objections and Replies — an inquiry into claims and reasons 10. Where the Traditions Diverge — the implications of the essential questions Conclusion — Synthesis, Limitations, and Further Study