Toulmin’s ‘argument fields’: an Operational or a Critical Notion?

Author(s):
Martínez García, Marcia
Editor(s):
Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
Published
2024
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

After briefly reviewing the controversies surrounding Toulmin's ‘argument fields’, it will be argued that such notion was not advanced by the author as a technical or truly operational notion for the analysis of argumentation but, rather, as a critical notion that allowed him to highlight the need to attend to field-dependent evaluative criteria within any rational justification practice. Finally, some remarks will be made about why it is relevant to favour such an interpretation.

argument fieldscritical notionfield-dependency thesisoperational notionrational justificationS. Toulmin
Date issued
2024
Language
English
Is part of
Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2024), p. 635-644
hdl
1887/4107857

Conference

Meeting name
10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
Meeting location
Leiden, The Netherlands
Meeting date
2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07