Harald Wohlrapp is a German philosopher. His main focus is argumentation theory

Argumentation theory

Argumentation theory, or argumentation, is the interdisciplinary study of how humans should, can, and do reach conclusions through logical reasoning, that is, claims based, soundly or not, on premises. It includes the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion...

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Argumentation theory

Wohlrapp’s proposes a pragmatic approach (Charles Sanders Peirce). We have the key situation of a Gap in Orientation.
In this situation we need so called thetic theory for a New Orientation. The criterion for validness (German: Geltung, Gültigkeit) is the freedom of objections.

Wohlrapp focusses a dynamic and dialectical dimension between a logical and a rhetorical tradition. The logical inference should be addressed to the opponent in a proponent-opponent-model.

External links

• Infopage at University Hamburg
• Portrait, Ursula Schmidt

Selected Publications

• Der Begriff des Arguments. Über die Beziehungen zwischen Wissen, Forschen, Glaube, Subjektivität und Vernunft. Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann, 2008 ISBN 978-3-8260-3820-4
• Toulmin´s theory and the dynamics of argumentation. In: Argumentation : Perspectives and approaches. Proceedings of the conference on argumentation 1986 / Frans H. van Eemeren (ed.). - Dordrecht : Foris Publ., 1987, p 327-335
• Argumentum ad baculum and ideal speech situation. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Argumentation, June 1990 / ed. by Frans H. van Eemeren. - Amsterdam : SISCAT, 1991, p 397-402
• Resolving the riddle of the nondeductive argumentation schemes. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conferfence on Argumentation / Frans H. van Eemeren. - Amsterdam : SISCAT, 1995, p 55-62
• Wege der Argumentationsforschung - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt : Frommann-Holzboog, 1995

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