Annotated Bibliography.
Chrisitiano, Tom, Authority.
‘The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.’ (spring 2012 edition.) 2012
In this article the dynamics of political authority are postulated, and the postulations are explained. The postulations range from reasons of legality to authority defined solely by the Consent theory, where an individual’s imbued with a natural right to freedom. Although this article is not specifically written about writing it allows an individual to make abstractions of truth, which can be applied to other situations. (writing.)
Zambrano, Eduardo, origins
‘Authority, Social theories of’ ‘International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.’ 2000
In this chapter the origins of Authority, its cosmogony, are discussed. In summation authority does not adhere to one unique cosmogony, but many, which constantly change.
Zambrano, Eduardo, contemporary uses
‘Authority, Social theories of’ ‘International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.’ 2000
The theories discussed in the previous chapter are applied to the current authority relationships which exist in our world. The introduction of Game Theory is related to the previous ideas to provide a language or a means of understanding of particular motivations of obedience.
Labossiere, Mike
‘Argument from Authority (Non Fallacious.)’ (online resource.)
The Idea of applying validity or invalidity to an argument presented by authority was discussed in this article as well as a list of qualifiers which are necessary for an argument from authority to be valid. (non fallacious.) The perceptions of authority relationships by individuals is also discussed. (An individual’s possible bias to a certain authority.)
Arguments from authority
ReplyDeleteThe structure of language and communication promotes the development of a hierarchy of authority, and since writing (In its traditional sense.) is a form of communication, these hierarchies of authority must also exist in writing. To tie authority to writing I’m going to first define authority, and explain some founded theories on authority relationships, second define a valid argument from authority, third discuss objective or argumentative writing, and finally use the previous three premises to conclude what variables of authority relationships are important in the propagation of information.
Relationships of Authority often form the base of communication, and define the propagation of information; specifically arguments. These relationships are important in communication, and influence the dominance of arguments. The rhetorical weight given to these arguments from authority often vary between individuals in our multi-cosmogonic society. Given this the reasons an authority may be accepted or denied are incorrect, for example a devote member of the Catholic Faith may reject the theory of evolution simply because a authoritative figure in their church (one who's no expert on evolution.) claims that it is blasphemous. Arguments from authority (Especially when the authoritative figure is not an expert or biased on the subject.) are often fallacious, but this doesn't dampen their presence. I'm asserting that since authoritative hierarchy inherently exists in all known forms of communication, that writing, as a form of communication (. . .) is subject to these forces.
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ReplyDeleteThis isn't an acceptable bibliography. Encyclopedias, specialized or otherwise, are not acceptable sources in academic conversations, but more importantly, authority in writing and argument is the subject of numerous articles and books in writing studies, and the assignment asks you to write your paper for the readers of a writing studies journal. A search for authority on comppile.org yields over 500 results; you could have started with the Wardle and Penrose and Geisler articles in the book as well as all the discourse community articles since they all directly or indirectly address authority by setting out the qualifications communities establish for authority. You can certainly use sources from outside writing studies as long as you connect them to writing, but they should be scholarly peer reviewed sources rather than general information like encyclopedias.
I apologize if I failed to make these constraints clear; I do think they are clearly stated on the assignment sheet. Please try to get ahold of and use as many writing sources relevant to authority as you can. If you want to focus on argument, you can also search that term on comppile with good results.
The "encyclopedias" are composed of arguments in relevent philosophical articles, which may be, to me, more important in forming my argument than arguments written on different aspects of authority (example: attaining it.), which would require me to tailor the informationto fit my argument likely in a way that wouldn't succeed.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the sources i've listed adequately form a base from which I can argue, but this is not to say that I couldn't use more sources, which I will find.