Argumentation and Rhetoric
Objectives
a. Have an adequate understanding of rhetoric as the study of rational and argumentative methods of persuasion.
b. Have an adequate understanding of the historical genesis of rhetoric, dialectic and logic as three disciplines of argumentation with specific methods and techniques of reasoning aimed at rational persuasion.
c. To possess adequate knowledge of the most relevant contemporary interpretations of the status and function of argumentation and rhetoric.
d. Be able to define the logical concept of argument as formal valid deduction from given premises and some of his main formal figures (e.g., modus ponens, modus tollens).
e. Be able to evaluate from a critical point of view the formal and informal conception of argumentative reasoning, its empirical and contextual limits.
f. Understand and identify failures of reasoning through the study of some more frequent fallacies.
General characterization
Code
01101645
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Marcin Lewinski
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
ARISTOTELES, Retórica, IN-CM, 2005
PERELMAN, Chaïm, L'empire rhétorique. Rhétorique et argumentation (Vrin, 2002). Trad. portuguesa: O Império Retórico, Asa, 1993
PLANTIN, Christian, L´argumentation (Paris, Seuil, 1996). Trad. Portuguesa: A argumentação, Grácio Editor, 2011.
WESTON, Anthony, A Rulebook for Arguments (Hackett Publishing Company, 1986). Trad. Portuguesa: A arte de argumentar, Gradiva, 2005
Texts and further bibliography will be announced during class
Teaching method
Theoretical exposition (60%) of the contents by the teacher and realization, in practical classes (40%) either of exercises or oral presentations of group work and debates concerning some subjects. Each student must do a small written essay on a subject, based on written bibliography and previously submitted to the teacher for his acceptance.
In class teaching.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - Final exam(60%), Written text:(40%)
Subject matter
Intro: Conditions of possibility of Rhetoric
1. Introduction to rhetoric and argumentation: basic concepts
2. Formal arguments
3. Informal arguments
4. Fallacies
5. Rhetorical figures, rhetorical situation, audience
Programs
Programs where the course is taught: