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Commentary On Freeman, Daniel N. Boone Jun 2007

Commentary On Freeman, Daniel N. Boone

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Commentary On Friemann, H José Plug Jun 2007

Commentary On Friemann, H José Plug

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Dialectical Obligations Of Serial Arguers, Rich Friemann Jun 2007

Dialectical Obligations Of Serial Arguers, Rich Friemann

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I examine the concept of the relationship negotiation dialogue (Weger Jr. 2003) in the context of serial arguing (Trapp and Hoff 1985). Between argument episodes, marital partners experiencing difficulty may think about entering counseling, or terminating their relationship. Removed from the dialogical context, such judgments involve the notions of argument as inquiry (Blair 2004; 1992; Johnson 2000) and argument0 (Hample 1992). I explore the dialectical obligations of a person who decides to end his relationship.


Resolving Moral Dissensus: Possibilities For Argumentation, James B. Freeman Jun 2007

Resolving Moral Dissensus: Possibilities For Argumentation, James B. Freeman

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Moral dissensus may arise first because persons may disagree over the warrants licensing inferring an evaluative conclusion from premises asserting that properties alleged evaluatively relevant hold. This results in seeing different properties as evaluatively relevant. Secondly, such properties will frequently not be descriptive but interpretive, asserting some nomic connection. Persons may disagree over what evaluatively relevant properties hold in a given case. We explore the possibilities for argumentation to resolve these two types of disagreement.


Commentary On Goddu, Patrick Francken Jun 2007

Commentary On Goddu, Patrick Francken

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What Is A “Real” Argument?, G C. Goddu Jun 2007

What Is A “Real” Argument?, G C. Goddu

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Numerous informal logicians and argumentation theorists restrict their theorizing to what they call “real” arguments. But is there a clear distinction to be made between “real” and “non-real” arguments? Here I explore four possible accounts of the alleged distinction and argue that none can serve the theoretical uses to which the distinction is most often put.


Parrhesia: The Aesthetics Of Arguing Truth To Power, Gladys Thomas Goodnight Jun 2007

Parrhesia: The Aesthetics Of Arguing Truth To Power, Gladys Thomas Goodnight

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Parrhesia is the rhetorical figure of dissent par excellence. The essay argues that parrhesia is understood as risky argumentation within the rhetorical tradition. The relation of frank speech and flattery has been a core discussion about the predicaments of advocacy since Greece and Rome. Whereas Foucault models the term primarily from the aesthetic enactments of Euripides, the essay studies parrhesia as a mutually implicating struggle articulated in Sophoclean drama. Dilemmas of wartime dissent found in United States Congressional debate over Iraq are presented as a contemporary case study.


Commentary On Goodwin, Frans H. Van Eemeren Jun 2007

Commentary On Goodwin, Frans H. Van Eemeren

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Solitarist Thinking And Fragmentary Logic, Jim Gough, Mano Daniel Jun 2007

Solitarist Thinking And Fragmentary Logic, Jim Gough, Mano Daniel

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Amartya Sen and others argue that a distorted form of multiculturalism called plural monoculturalism fosters a potentially dangerous kind of multiculturalism based on solitarist thinking supported by fragmentary logic. We explicate the roles played by solitarist thinking, fragmentary logic and negative identity in defective forms of multiculturalism and argue that genuine multiculturalism is best understood using what we call particularist logic, pragmatically operating in context, to form the basis for a diversity of individual identities.


Commentary On Gough & Daniel, Derek Allen Jun 2007

Commentary On Gough & Daniel, Derek Allen

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Two Is A Small Number: False Dichotomies Revisited, Trudy Govier Jun 2007

Two Is A Small Number: False Dichotomies Revisited, Trudy Govier

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Our acceptance of falsely dichotomous statements is often intellectually distorting. It restricts imagination, limits opportunities, and lends support to pseudo-logical arguments. In conflict situations, the presumption that there are only two sides is often a harmful distortion. Why do so many false dichotomies seem plausible? Are all dichotomies false? What are the alternatives, if any, to such fundamental dichotomies as ‘true/false’, ‘yes/no’, ‘proponent/opponent,’ and ‘accept/reject’?


The Triple Contract: A Case Study Of A Source Blending Analogical Argument, Marcello Guarini Jun 2007

The Triple Contract: A Case Study Of A Source Blending Analogical Argument, Marcello Guarini

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One form of analogical argument proceeds by comparing a disputed case (the target) with an agreed upon case (the source) to try to resolve the dispute. There is a variation on preceding form of argument not yet identified in the theoretical literature. This variation involves multiple sources, and it requires that the sources be combined or blended for the argument to work. Arguments supporting the Triple Contract are shown to possess this structure.


Commentary On Guarini, David Hunter Jun 2007

Commentary On Guarini, David Hunter

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Commentary On Govier, Erik E W Krabbe Jun 2007

Commentary On Govier, Erik E W Krabbe

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Building A Winning Team: The Development Of Arguments In Criminal Cases, Kati Hannken-Illjes Jun 2007

Building A Winning Team: The Development Of Arguments In Criminal Cases, Kati Hannken-Illjes

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When ‘making a case’ in court, the defense lawyer engages different arguments in a situated performance. At the same time, these arguments have developed over time in front of different audiences. In this paper I will follow the construction of arguments in an actual criminal case from preparation to the trial by focusing on the developments and refinements of the arguments that inform and shape the case.


Commentary On Harkness, Thomas Fischer Jun 2007

Commentary On Harkness, Thomas Fischer

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‘So’, David Hitchcock Jun 2007

‘So’, David Hitchcock

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I argue, contrary to a recent assertion by Lilian Bermejo-Luque, that the inference-claim in an argument of the form ‘p, so q’ is not its associated material conditional ‘if p then q’. Rather, it is the claim that the argument has a covering generalization that is non-trivially true. I defend this interpretation against three objections by Bermejo-Luque.


Commentary On Hitchcock, Lilian Bermejo-Luque Jun 2007

Commentary On Hitchcock, Lilian Bermejo-Luque

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Commentary On Hazen, Dale Hample Jun 2007

Commentary On Hazen, Dale Hample

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Commentary On Hoffmann, Joseph A. Novak Jun 2007

Commentary On Hoffmann, Joseph A. Novak

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Dissensus As Value And Practice In Cultural Argument: The Tangled Web Of Argument, Con/Dis-Sensus, Values And Cultural Variations, Michael David Hazen Jun 2007

Dissensus As Value And Practice In Cultural Argument: The Tangled Web Of Argument, Con/Dis-Sensus, Values And Cultural Variations, Michael David Hazen

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This paper will initially explore the assumptions about dissensus and consensus embedded in the values of cultures such as the dimension of individualism/collectivism. This will lead into an examination of how the emerging ideas about cultural forms of argument relate to dissensus and consensus in cultural practices. Finally, the paper will explore the ways that argument as dissensus can bridge the gap between cultural values and practice.


Searching For Common Ground On Hamas Through Logical Argument Mapping, Michael H G Hoffmann Jun 2007

Searching For Common Ground On Hamas Through Logical Argument Mapping, Michael H G Hoffmann

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Robert Fogelin (1985) formulated the thesis “that deep disagreements cannot be resolved through the use of argument, for they undercut the conditions essential to arguing.” The possibility of arguing presupposes “a shared background of beliefs and preferences,” and if such a background is not given, there is no way of “rational” dispute resolution. By contrast to this pessimistic view, I will propose a method that has been developed to overcome difficulties as described by Fogelin.


Commentary On Hundleby, Margaret A. Cuonzo Jun 2007

Commentary On Hundleby, Margaret A. Cuonzo

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The Need For Rhetorical Listening To Ground Scientific Objectivity, Catherine E. Hundleby Jun 2007

The Need For Rhetorical Listening To Ground Scientific Objectivity, Catherine E. Hundleby

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Recent work in feminist and postcolonial rhetoric demonstrates various meanings of silence (Glenn 2004). Listening rhetorically in order to comprehend silences (Ratcliffe 2006) is particularly difficult in scientific contexts, I argue, because the common ground for scientific discourse assumes a culture of disclosure. Rhetorical listening is also important to science because listening accounts for silence as well as disclosure, and so maximizes the diversity in recognized perspectives that provides scientific objectivity (Longino 1990; 2004).


Common Ground And Modal Disagreement, David Hunter Jun 2007

Common Ground And Modal Disagreement, David Hunter

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The common ground in an inquiry consists of what the participants agree on, at least for the sake of the inquiry. The relations between the factual and linguistic components of common ground are notoriously difficult to trace. I clarify them by exploring how modal disagreements – disagreements about how things might be – interact with the linguistic and the factual common ground. I argue that modal agreement is essential to common ground of any kind


Commentary On Hunter, G C. Goddu Jun 2007

Commentary On Hunter, G C. Goddu

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Common Ground, Argument Form And Analogical Reductio Ad Absurdum, Hanrike Jansen Jun 2007

Common Ground, Argument Form And Analogical Reductio Ad Absurdum, Hanrike Jansen

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Most arguments can be presented in different forms, e.g. with explicit data or with an explicit inference license and, in the latter case, with a modus ponens- or a modus tollens-inference license. It is arguable that one form is more appropriate or effective with regard to a specific piece of argumentation than another. However, in this paper it is argued that with regard to analogical reductio ad absurdum argumentation, its alleged persuasive effect is due to a successful appeal to common ground and not to its form.


Commentary On Jorgensen, Christopher W. Tindale Jun 2007

Commentary On Jorgensen, Christopher W. Tindale

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Commentary On Jansen, Takuzo Konishi Jun 2007

Commentary On Jansen, Takuzo Konishi

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Anticipating Objections As A Way Of Coping With Dissensus, Ralph H. Johnson Jun 2007

Anticipating Objections As A Way Of Coping With Dissensus, Ralph H. Johnson

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One of the traditional ways in which we manage dissensus is by argumentation, which may be construed as the attempt of the proponent to persuade rationally the other party of the truth (or acceptability) of some thesis. To achieve this, the arguer will often anticipate a possible objection. In this paper, I attempt to shed light on the normative aspect of the task of anticipating objections. I deal with such questions as: How is the arguer to anticipate objections? Which of the anticipated objections are to be dealt with? What is required to deal successfully with an objection?