The Fallacy of Begging the Question: A Reply to Barker

Dialogue 16 (3):485-498 (1977)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

According to John A Barker, whether an argument begs the question is purely a matter of logical form. According to me, it is also a matter of epistemic conditions; some arguments which beg the question in some contexts need not beg the question in every context. I point out difficulties in Barker's treatment and defend my own views against some of his criticisms. In the concluding section, "Alleged difficulties with disjunctive syllogism," I defend the validity of disjunctive syllogism against the views of Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D Belnap, Jr., ask pointed questions about the notion of intensional disjunction, and suggest how my treatment of begging the question can be extended to deal with the so-called paradoxes of strict implication

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The Fallacy of Begging the Question.John A. Barker - 1976 - Dialogue 15 (2):241-255.
Petitio principii: What's wrong?Andrea Iacona & Diego Marconi - 2005 - Facta Philosophica 7 (1):19-34.
Begging the question.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - 1999 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (2):174 – 191.
Begging the Question.David H. Sanford - 1972 - Analysis 32 (6):197-199.
Skepticism, Question Begging, and Burden Shifting.Paul K. Moser - 2000 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5:209-217.
Sketch for a Modal Interpretation of Descartes’ Cogito.Michael R. Baumer - 1985 - Philosophy Research Archives 11:635-655.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-09-25

Downloads
35 (#393,691)

6 months
5 (#244,526)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

David Sanford
Duke University

Citations of this work

The Petitio: Aristotle'S Five Ways.John Woods & Douglas Walton - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (March):77-100.
The Petitio.John Woods & Douglas Walton - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1):77-100.
Petitio principii: What's wrong?Andrea Iacona & Diego Marconi - 2005 - Facta Philosophica 7 (1):19-34.

View all 7 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Begging the Question.David H. Sanford - 1972 - Analysis 32 (6):197-199.
Petitio principii.John Woods & Douglas Walton - 1975 - Synthese 31 (1):107 - 127.
The justification of induction.Richard Swinburne - 1974 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 165 (2):183-184.
The Fallacy of Begging the Question.John A. Barker - 1976 - Dialogue 15 (2):241-255.

View all 7 references / Add more references