Politics of practical reasoning: integrating action, discourse, and argument

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Introduction: Integrated Practical ReasoningRicca Edmondson and Karlheinz HulserSection 1. Fundamental Structures of Practical ReasoningChapter 1: Aristotle's Political AnthropologyFran O'RourkeChapter 2: Pragmatics and the Idea of the Illocutionary in Stoic Language TheoryKarlheinz HulserChapter 3: Utrum gratitudo sit virtus moralis vel passio animae or: Gratitude-an Aristotelian Virtue or an Emotion?Thomas NistersChapter 4: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: The Place of Reason in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral SentimentsGerard CaseyChapter 5: Reasons to Act and Practical ReasoningThomas GilSection 2. Developing Convincing ArgumentsChapter 6: Practical Reasoning in Place: Tracing "Wise" Inferences in Everyday LifeRicca EdmondsonChapter 7: Toulmin's Rhetorical LogicFrank CanovanChapter 8: Reason, Production, and Rival Visions of Working LifeKeith BreenChapter 9: Reasoning About Disability in the Light of Advances in TechnologyRichard HullChapter 10: Principles in Practice: Reasoning with Principles in Biomedical EthicsHeike FelzmannSection 3. Engagement for the Practical Unity of LifeChapter 11: The Theory of Double Truth RevisitedKarsten HarriesChapter 12: Philosophia sine qua non: John Rawls' transcendental-political reflectionsSebastian LallaChapter 13: Sceptical Wisdom: Descartes, Pascal and the Challenge of PyrrhonismFelix O'MurchadhaChapter 14: Art as "Organizer" of Life: the Case of Jackson PollockElizabeth LanghorneAfterword: Signs, Bodies, ArtworksTerry Eagleton