Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Historical Selections
Chapter 1. Dialectical Propositions (from Topics) by Aristotle
Chapter 2. Presumptions in Legal Argumentation: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Hanns Hohmann
Chapter 3. Of the Burthen of Proof: On Whom Shall It Lie? by Jeremy Bentham
Chapter 4. Presumptions and Burden of Proof by Richard Whately
Chapter 5. The Sportsman’s Rejoinder by Richard Whately
Chapter 6. The Burden of Proof by Alfred Sidgwick
Chapter 7. The Burden of Proof by James B. Thayer
Chapter 8. On Presumption and Burden of Proof by C. P. Ilbert
Part 2. Contemporary Developments
Chapter 9. The Anatomy of a Dispute by Douglas Ehninger and Wayne Brockriede
Chapter 10. A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of the Burden of Proof by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser
Chapter 11. The Juridical Roots of Presumptions and Burdens of Proof by Richard Gaskins
Chapter 12. Inertia in Argumentation: Nature and Reason by James Crosswhite
Chapter 13. The Liberal-Progressive and Conservative Presumptions: On Deliberation, Debate, and Public Argument by G. Thomas Goodnight
Chapter 14. Rhetorical and Epistemological Perspectives on Rescher’s Account of Presumption and Burden of Proof by Fred J. Kauffeld and James B. Freeman
Chapter 15. The Significance of Presumptions in Informal Logic by James B. Freeman
Chapter 16. Analyzing Presumption as a Modal Qualifier by David Godden
Chapter 17. The Speech Act of Presumption by Reversal of Burden of Proof by Douglas Walton
Chapter 18. Some Presumptions by Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Chapter 19. On the Relationship between Presumptions and Burdens of Proof by Lilian Bermejo-Luque
Chapter 20. A Rhetorically Oriented Account of Presumption and Probative Obligations in Normative Pragmatic Terms by Fred J. Kauffeld
A Bibliography for Argumentation Theorists
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index
