Preface. 1. Reasons; R.C. Pinto. 2. The pragmatic dimension of premise acceptability; J.B. Freeman. 3. Rationality and judgment; H. Siegel. 4. The dialectical tier revisited; R.H. Johnson. 5. The rabbit in the hat: the internal relations of the pragma-dialectical rules; H.V. Hansen. 6. Toumlin's warrants; D. Hitchcock. 7. Metadialogues; E.C.W. Krabbe. 8. Relationships among logic, dialectic and rhetoric; J.A. Blair. 9. Logical fallacies, dialectical transgressions, rhetorical sins and other failures of rationality in argumentation; D.H. Cohen. 10. A pragmatic view of the burden of proof; F.H. van Eemeren, P. Houtlosser. 11. The ordinary practice of presuming and presumption with special attention to veracity and the burden of proof; F.J. Kauffeld. 12. Two conceptions of openness in argumentation theory; S. Jacobs. 13. Multidimensionality and non-deductiveness in deliberate argumentation; C. Kock. 14. Argumentation studies in France: a new legitimacy; C. Plantin. 15. Discourse correspondence between argumentative and grammatical sequences; S. Stati. 16. Diagramming, argumentation schemes and critical questions; D. Walton, C. Reed. 17. Legal argumentation theory and the concept of law; S. Bertea. 18. Arguer's obligations: another perspective; J.W. Wenzel. 19. Charles S. Pierce's theory of abduction and the Aristotelian enthymeme from signs; M. Kraus. 20. Rhetoric and dialectic in Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'; M. Leff. 21. On the argumentative quality of explanatory narratives; T. Kvernbekk. 22. The wiles of argument: protodeliberation and heroic prudence in Homer's `Odyssey'; G.T. Goodnight. 23. Felicity conditions for the circumstantial ad hominem: the case of `Bush v. Gore'; D. Zarefsky. 24. The potential conflict between normatively-good argumentative practice and persuasive success: evidence from persuasion effects research; D.J. O'Keefe. 25. The concept of argument quality in the elaboraton likelihood model: a normative and empirical approach to Petty and Cacioppo's `strong' and `weak' arguments; R. van Enschot-van Dijk, L. Hustinx, H. Hoeken. 26. How narrative argumentation works: an analysis of argumentation aimed at reconsidering goals; L. Langsdorf. List of contributors.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Argumentation (Amsterdam, 2002) by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. It provides an insightful cross-section of the current state of affairs in argumentation research. It will be of interest to all those working in the field of argumentation theory and to all scholars who are interested in recent developments in this field.