Practical Reasoning: Goal-Driven, Knowledge-Based, Action-Guiding Argumentation

By Douglas N. Walton

This book is an analysis of the distinctive form of reasoning, called practical reasoning by Aristotle (as opposed to theoretical reasoning), that serves to guide behaviour. It is a contribution to the literature on practical reasoning and indirectly on its application to action theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847676056
• ISBN13: 9780847676057
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 412 Pages