Controversy and Confrontation

1. Preface; 2. List of contributors; 3. Controversy and confrontation in argumentative discourse (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 4. Dichotomies and types of debate (by Dascal, Marcelo); 5. Charles Darwin versus George Mivart: The role of polemics in science (by Regner, Anna Carolina); 6. Scientific demarcation and metascience: The national academy of sciences on greenhouse warming and evolution (by Lessl, Thomas); 7. Reforming the Jews, rejecting marginalization: The 1799 German debate on Jewish emancipation in its controversy context (by Saim, Mirela); 8. Communication principles for controversies: A historical perspective (by Fritz, Gerd); 9. On the role of pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectic in scientific controversies (by Ferreira, Ademar); 10. A "dialectic ladder" of refutation and dissuasion (by Marras, Cristina); 11. Responding to objections (by Johnson, Ralph H.); 12. Pragmatic inconsistency and credibility (by Laar, Jan Albert van); 13. Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 14. Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation (by Aakhus, Mark); 15. Predicaments of politicization in the debate over abstinence-only sex education (by Jackson, Sally); 16. Rhetoric of science, pragma-dialectics, and science studies (by Kutrovatz, Gabor); 17. Scientific controversies and the pragma-dialectical model: Analysing a case study from the 1670s, the published part of the Newton-Lucas correspondence (by Zemplen, Gabor); 18. Index