COGENCY Journal


Scope and Description of the Journal

Cogency is an international journal devoted to research and scholarship in reasoning and argumentation. The journal seeks to be a source of reference which elucidates our understanding of these fields of study. It aims is to contribute both at a theoretical and a practical level, taking into account perspectives originating in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, formal and informal logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, amongst others disciplines and angles. Cogency publishes articles and book reviews.

Languages: English or Spanish.
Abstracts: Both.

Format: MLA STYLE.

COGENCY Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation

Contents
Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2009

Editorial: Remembering Stephen Edelston Toulmin

Articles

One Logician’s Perspective on Argumentation
La perspectiva de un lógico sobre la argumentación
JOHAN VAN BENTHEM, University of Amsterdam / Stanford University

La distinción aristotélica entre Lógica, Dialéctica y Retórica y su lugar en la Teoría de la Argumentación
The Aristotelian distinction between Logic, Dialectic and Rhetoric, and its role within Argumentation Theory
LILIAN BERMEJO LUQUE, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Keeping an Open Mind and Having a Sense of Proportion as Virtues in Argumentation
Manteniendo una mente abierta y teniendo un sentido de proporción como virtudes en la argumentación
DANIEL H. COHEN, Colby College

Cultural keywords in Arguments. The case of Interactivity
Claves culturales en los argumentos. El caso de Interactividad
ANDREA ROCCI and MARCIO MONTEIRO, University of Lugano

Non-cogency misjudged: Reconstructing a three-stage mistaken argumentation-process
La no-cogencia subestimada: Reconstruyendo el error de las tres etapas del proceso argumentativo
JOSÉ MIGUEL SAGÜILLO, University of Santiago de Compostela

Book Reviews

Andrea Gilardoni, Logica e argomentazione. Un prontuario (Logic and argumentation. A handbook). Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 3rd edition, 2008.
ADELINO CATTANI, University of Padua

M. Agnes van Rees, Dissociation in Argumentative Discussions. A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.
ANCA GATA, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati

Lorne Szabolcsi, Numerical Term Logic (edited by George Englebretsen, foreword by Fred Sommers), Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
NIKI PFEIFER, University of Salzburg

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2009

Editorial

Articles

How to Solve Paradoxes: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Solution-Types
Margaret A. Cuonzo, Long Island University

The fallacies of composition and division revisited
Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen, University of Amsterdam

Logical Opposition and Social Opposition
Trudy Govier, University of Lethbridge

On the Alleged Failure of Informal Logic
Ralph H. Johnson, University of Windsor

Constructive Controversy - Rhetoric as Dissensus-oriented Discourse
Christian Kock, University of Copenhagen

Discurso escolar y argumentación. Acerca de algunas estrategias en la construcción del ethos disciplinar de Ciencias Sociales Cristina Tosi, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Book Reviews

Review of Douglas Walton (2008). Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach (Second Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 347pp, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-521-71380-1.
Steven W. Patterson, Marygrove College

Treating Kuhn's Gap with Critical Contextualism. Review of William Rehg (2009). Cogent Science in Context. The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory and Habermas. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (pp. X + 345, ISBN 978-0-262-18271-3, £29.95).
Frank Zenker, University of Lund

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