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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Classic Cases and Basic Concepts
1. Abusive and Circumstantial
2. The Smoking and Tree Hugger Cases
3. The Bias Ad Hominem
4. Poisoning the Well and Tu Quoque
5. Genetic Fallacy, Two Wrongs, and Guilt by Association
6. Historical Origins of the Ad Hominem
7. The Contemporary Ex Concessis View
8. Actions, Circumstances, and Commitment
9. Person and Commitment
10. Conclusion
Chapter Two: The Textbook Treatment
1. The Early Accounts
2. Growing Recognition of Nonfallacious Aspect
3. Wild Variations
4. Elaboration of Subtypes
5. Justifying the View That It Is Fallacious
6. Fundamental Disagreements
7. Nonstandard Systems of Classification
8. Increased Sophistication
9. Persistence of the Problems
10. General Problems Posed
Chapter Three: Commitment and Personal Attack
1. Argument from Commitment
2. Relation to Circumstantial Ad Hominem
3. Form of Personal Attack
4. Person and Participant
5. Ways Out of the Dilemma
6. The Direct Ad Hominem Revisited
7. Context Sensitivity of the Circumstantial Ad Hominem
8. The Bias Attack Explored
9. Ad Hominem Attacks and Defenses
10. Prospects for Further Progress
Chapter Four: A Longer Case Study
1. Problem of Fixing Ad Hominem Criticisms
2. Framing the Issues of the Dialogue
3. The Main Argumentation Stage
4. Closing Stages of the Argument
5. Analysis of the Opening and Confrontation Stages
6. Analysis of the Argumentation and Closing Stages
7. Panoramic View of the Argument
8. Personal Conduct and Character of Political Officeholders
9. The Equivocation Defense
10. Evaluating a Case
Chapter Five: Character, Deliberation, and Practical Reasoning
1. What Is Character?
2. Place of Character in Critical Discussion
3. Deliberation As a Type of Dialogue
4. Practical Reasoning
5. Character and Practical Reasoning
6. Making Circumstantial Charges Stick
7. Character in Political Discourse
8. Aristotle on Ethotic Argument
9. Ad Hominem in Legal Argument
10. Actions, Commitments, and Character
Chapter Six: Forms and Classification of Subtypes
1. Form of the Direct Subtype
2. Form of the Circumstantial Subtype
3. Critical Questions for the Circumstantial Subtype
4. Form of the Bias Subtype
5. The Poisoning the Well Subtype
6. Tu Quoque and Two Wrongs
7. Guilt by Association
8. The Situationally Disqualifying Subtype
9. Applying the Classification System to Cases
10. Summary of the Classification System
Chapter Seven: Evaluation of Ad Hominem Arguments
1. Fallacious and Inadequately Supported Arguments
2. Dialectical Relevance
3. Subjective and Objective Evidence
4. The Credibility Function
5. Relevance of a Person’s Credibility
6. Ad Hominem As a Reasonable Legal Argument
7. Evaluating the Direct Type
8. Evaluating the Circumstantial Type
9. Evaluating the Bias Type
10. Explaining the Fallacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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