Acknowledgement.- Preface.- Part I: The Tradition of Topics.- Chapter 1. Aristotle's foundation of topics: the foundation of the study of inference in argumentation.- Chapter 2. Cicero's Topica and the establishment of the topical tradition by Boethius.- Chapter 3. The richness and originality of medieval contributions.- Chapter 4. After the Middle Ages.- Chapter 5. Modern and contemporary approaches.- Part II: The Argumentum Model of Topics.- Chapter 6. The inferential configuration of arguments: the Argumentum Model of Topics.- Chapter 7. Advanced theoretical perspectives and open questions.- Chapter 8. Analysis and evaluation of arguments in context.- Appendix.- Index.
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