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Engaging With Indigenous Philosophy With An Indigenous Philosopher, Lorraine Mayer
Engaging With Indigenous Philosophy With An Indigenous Philosopher, Lorraine Mayer
The Canadian Society for Study of Practical Ethics / Société Canadienne Pour L'étude De L'éthique Appliquée — SCEEA
This paper tells the story of an encounter between Wisakaychak, a trickster in the Omushkego tradition, and the Strange Stranger. The latter is engrossed in trying to determine what he can know beyond any doubt. Wisakaychak engages his partner in dialogue. By posing suitable questions to him, Wisakaychak is able to elicit answers from him, including the answer to the riddle of his own identity.
Acquisition Of Knowledge Through Narrative In Argumentative Processes, Guillermo Sierra-Catalán
Acquisition Of Knowledge Through Narrative In Argumentative Processes, Guillermo Sierra-Catalán
OSSA Conference Archive
The objective of this investigation is to study the role that the narrative speech act plays in relation to the acquisition of certain types of knowledge within the frame of argumentative processes. An inferential scheme that regulates the acquisition of knowledge is exposed, as well as an analysis of the reasons adduced. This is used to develop an evaluative method for the argumentative “goodness” of narrative texts. Finally, the particular case of literary narratives is analysed.
Truth And The Virtue Of Arguments, Robert C. Pinto
Truth And The Virtue Of Arguments, Robert C. Pinto
OSSA Conference Archive
In a 2006 paper I claimed that the virtue arguments or inferences must have is not that they be truth-preserving, but that they be entitlement-preserving (in Brandom’s sense of that phrase). I offered two reasons there why such a conception of argument virtue is needed for a satisfactory treatment of defeasible arguments and inferences. This paper revisits that claim, and assesses the prospects for a more thorough defence than was offered in that paper.
Argumentation As An Ethical And Political Choice, Menashe Schwed
Argumentation As An Ethical And Political Choice, Menashe Schwed
OSSA Conference Archive
The paper's two theses are: First, that the historical and philosophical roots of argumentation are in ethics and politics, and not in any formal ideal, be it mathematical, scientific or other. Furthermore, argumentation is a human invention, deeply tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece. Second, that argumentation presupposes and advances concurrently humanistic values, especially the autonomy of the individual to think and decide in a free and uncoerced manner.