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The Incommensurability Of Values Problem, Julder Gómez

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How to make a reasonable decision in a pluralistic community when two of their highest values (CP and CN) are incommensurable, one of them (CP) is used as a premise in favor of a proposal (C), and the other one (CN) is used as a premise against the very same proposal? After considering previous answers to similar questions, I suggest establishing new hierarchies of values from the point of view of their conditions of possibility.

Reply To Commentary On “Deliberation Ad Collective Identity Formation”, Hubert Marraud

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Commentary On Castro, “Negotiation As A Disagreement Management Tool”, Fabrizio Macagno

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Commentary On Michael Yong-Set, “Getting Down In The Muds: A Ludological Perspective On Arguers”, John Licato

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Comment On Hubert Marraud’S “Deliberation And Collective Identity Formation”, Jeff Noonan

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Deliberation And Collective Identity Formation, Hubert Marraud

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Deliberation is an argumentative practice in which several parties reason in order to decide the best available course of action. I argue that deliberation, unlike negotiation, requires a collective agency, defined by shared commitments, and not merely a plural agency defined by aggregation of individual commitments. Since the “we” presupposed by this argumentative genre is built up in the course of the deliberation exchange itself, shaping collective identity is a basic function of public deliberation.

Getting Down In The Muds: A Ludological Perspective On Arguers, Michael A. Yong-Set

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Dan Cohen (2018) and Michael Gilbert (1997) have variously emphasized the need for argumentation theorists to pay attention to ‘arguers’ and not just ‘arguments.’ Following Yong-Set (2016), this paper will suggest that ‘games’ can be leveraged to enrich an understanding of the ‘person’ aspect of argumentation.

Ludology is the academic and critical study of games qua games, especially in terms of system design, player experience and the socio-cultural dynamics of gaming. By drawing upon and extending the lessons learned from ludologist Bartle’s (1996, 2012) analysis of the relation between player-types and games that successfully implement Multi-User-Dungeons (MUDs), I argue that …

Negotiation As A Disagreement Management Tool, Diego Castro

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Can we negotiate our way out of disagreements? When the chances of persuading the counterpart are low, it might be possible to shift a persuasion to a negotiation dialogue. But what are the conditions for that shift? I will argue that, at least, the following conditions must hold: the disagreement must be practical rather than theoretical; and the parties must be willing to make a sacrifice. When that happens, disagreements can be negotiated, and such negotiation will be a type of practical argumentation.

In Search For A Balance Between Experimental Research And The Theory Of Reasoning: Commentary On José Ángel Gascón’S “Why Did You Really Do It? Examining The Distinction Between Kinds Of Reasons”, Marcin Koszowy

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Canadian Infrastructure For A “Canadian School” Of Informal Logic And Argumentation, Takuzo Konishi

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This article comments on Federico Puppo's position that a 'Canadian' school of argumentation exists. Based upon archival research, oral history interviews and published documents on the informal logic movement in the 1970s and 1980s, it is argued that Canadian infrastructure for informal logic and argumentation existed, in which a Canadian school of argumentation could exist.

Commentary On Guillermo Sierra Catalán’S “Fictional Claims”, Stephen Pender

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Acquisition Of Knowledge Through Narrative In Argumentative Processes, Guillermo Sierra-Catalán

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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.

Harmony In Diversity. On The (Possible) Existence Of ‘The Canadian School Of Argumentation’, Federico Puppo

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By looking at the birth and evolution of the informal logic movement, and by clarifying which kind of relations in a diversity we need in order to understand what “school” means, we would like to consider the hypothesis that there is something which could be called ‘the Canadian school of argumentation’ or, at least, of a Canadian tradition amongst those that make up the greater field of the study of argumentation.

Why Did You Really Do It? Examining The Distinction Between Kinds Of Reasons, José Ángel Gascón

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Studies in cognitive psychology have shown that many of our actions seem to be often influenced by irrelevant features of the environment, of which we are not aware. But exactly what reasons has the psychological research uncovered? In philosophy, a distinction has been made between normative, motivating, and explanatory reasons. Hence it is necessary to determine which of them have been revealed as the real reasons for our actions by the psychological research.