Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics
- Organization
- GTK Department of Marketing and Argumentation Theories
- Code
- GTI21AN306EN
- Title
- Argumentation
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2024/25/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The purpose of the class is to improve the participants’ argumentative and rational conflict management skills and to help them develop a critical and reflective attitude. We are going to study the central logical, argumentation-theoretic and rhetorical concepts in terms of which efforts to convince can be analyzed and apply them to real life dialogues. Links to Sustainable Development Goals: On successful completion of this course, students should be able to connect topics taught to the SDGs: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (SDG 4) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (SDG 5)
- Course content
- Basic concepts: argument, inference, explanation; logic, rhetoric, dialectic; speech acts in a debate. Dialectical themes: rules of persuasion dialogue and critical discussion; inquiry, negotiation, decision-making, quarrel, licit and illicit shifts between types of dialogue; arguments prone to irrelevance: appeal to fear, ad baculum, appeal to pity. Rhetorical themes: credibility and adaptation to the audience. Questions and answers: presupposition, loaded questions, complex questions, irrelevant replies. Linguistic issues: loaded terms, euphemism, verbal dispute: definitions: lexical, stipulative, persuasive and essence-definitions. The signs of bias. Deductive arguments: inconsistency, validity, logical form categorical syllogism, Venn-diagrams, elements of propositional logic. Inductive and presumptive arguments: argument schemes, critical questions, defeasibility; appeal to expert opinion, argument from popular opinion, argument from analogy, argument from correlation to cause, slippery slope, ad hominem, and their fallacious versions. Arguments in decision-making: argument from consequences, practical inference, necessary and sufficient conditions, dilemma, disjunctive reasoning, argument from ignorance. Reconstructing arguments: linked, convergent, subordinated and divergent patterns, unstated premises, diagramming arguments.
- Assessment method
- Grades offered during the semester: 60-69% satisfactory, 70-84% good, 85-100% excellent Examination grade: 50-54% pass, 55-69%, satisfactory, 70-84% good, 85-100% excellent The current assessment and evaluation requirements of the ELTE GTK apply, which can be found on the GTK TH website under the student's level of training.
- Bibliography
- Douglas Walton: Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.