Includes index.

Contents: Arguing and living in communities: Arguing as rational persuasion: logos -- Ethos and pathos -- Communities and conversation -- Identifying and recording a conversation -- Evaluating arguments -- Joining the conversation -- Arguing in electronic communities -- Types of claims: Arguing claims about existence -- Arguing claims about causality -- Arguing about language -- Arguing about values -- Arguing about actions -- Continuing the conversation: an anthology of arguments: Arguing about concealed weapons -- Arguing about access to the internet -- Arguing about affirmative action -- Arguing about managed health care -- Arguing about immigration -- Arguing about global issues in the 21st century.