The New Rhetoric and the Humanities: Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications (Synthese Library (140))

Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun­ dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim has even been made that all non-formal reasoning, to the extent that it cannot be formalized, no longer belongs to logic. This conception leads to a genuine impoverishment of logic as well as to a narrow conception of reason. It means that as soon as demonstrative proofs are no longer available reason will no longer dominate. Even the idea of the 'reasonable' becomes foreign to logic and such expres­ sions as 'reasonable decisions', 'reasonable choice' or 'reasonable hypotheses' would be put aside as meaningless. The domain of action, including method­ ology and everything that is given over to deliberation or controversy - i.e., foreign to formal logic - would become a battleground where necessarily the reason of the strongest would always prevail. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning....Pages 1-42 Rhetoric And Philosophy....Pages 43-51 Philosophy, Rhetoric, Commonplaces....Pages 52-61 The Philosophy of Pluralism and The New Rhetoric....Pages 62-72 Dialectic and Dialogue....Pages 73-81 Rhetorical Perspectives on Semantic Problems....Pages 82-90 Analogy and Metaphor in Science, Poetry and Philosophy....Pages 91-100 Scientific Methodology and Open Philosophy....Pages 101-106 Behaviorism’s Enlightened Despotism....Pages 107-110 Disagreement and Rationality....Pages 111-116 The Rational and The Reasonable....Pages 117-123 Reflections on Practical Reason....Pages 124-133 The Role of the Model in Education....Pages 134-137 Authority, Ideology and Violence....Pages 138-145 Meaning and Categories in History....Pages 146-158 Classicism and Romanticism in Argumentation....Pages 159-167 Back Matter....Pages 168-180 Ch. Perelman ; With An Introd. By Harold Zyskind. Most Of The Chapters Were Translated Into English By William Kluback. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.