Titlebook: Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty; Louise Cummings Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

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Circular Argument,rgument can demonstrate deductive validity. Yet, it fails of some criterion of rational persuasion in that an arguer simply ‘begs for’ rather than proves the question-at-issue. Historical and recent attempts to characterize the flaw in this argument have achieved a proliferation of dialectical and e

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Theory of Public Health Reasoning,ly in earlier chapters; and second, to examine the implications of this unified theory for the practice of public health. At the heart of the theory proposed in this book are two main modes of reasoning – systematic reasoning and heuristic reasoning. These modes differ in their level of internal com

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The Challenge for Public Health,gements about public health issues. It is contended that the hitherto neglected discipline of informal logic provides a valuable starting point for the development of a theory of public health reasoning.

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Philosophy and Public Health,ations of these arguments have lost some of their dominance. The journey taken by these arguments, from their treatment in the logical treatises of historical thinkers to present-day analyses, is examined in this chapter.

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Argument from Ignorance,zed as a valuable rational resource which can contribute to systematic and heuristic reasoning. During systematic reasoning, the argument may be used to discharge a burden of proof during critical questioning between a proponent and an opponent. The argument may also function as a cognitive heuristi

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Argument from Analogy,e dialectical and epistemic features of this argument are addressed within a discussion of the use of analogical argument in systematic and heuristic reasoning. The results of a study of public health reasoning reveal that members of the public are adept at identifying the conditions under which the