Arguments and Metaphors in Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Daniel Cohen

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Philosophical Arguments and Philosophical Metaphors......Page 2
1. Arguing With God......Page 8
PART I: ARGUMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY......Page 23
2. To Philosophize is to Argue......Page 25
3. Argument is War ... and War is Hell......Page 34
4. One Way to Lose an Argument......Page 49
PART II: THINKING ABOUT ARGUMENTS......Page 63
5. Evaluating Arguments and Making Meta-Arguments......Page 64
6. Logical Fallacies, Dialectical Transgressions, Rhetorical Sins, and Other Failures of Rationality in Argumentation......Page 78
7. Why Should I Argue?......Page 93
8. Just and Unjust Wars - and Just and Unjust Arguments......Page 103
PART III: METAPHORS IN PHILOSOPHY......Page 113
9. On Metaphors......Page 115
10. Metaphors and the Discourse of Philosophy......Page 125
11. The Tragedy of Philosophy's Metaphors......Page 137
PART IV: METAPHORS VERSUS ARGUMENTS......Page 148
12. Once Upon an Argument: Being an Account of a Dialogue between a Poet and a Philosopher, both Ancient......Page 150
Postscript: On Performance and Interpretation......Page 167
13. The Logic of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Logic......Page 175
14. Metaphors as Arguments and Arguments as Metaphors......Page 191
15. Words Without End, Amen......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 219
Index of Names......Page 228