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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology
Informal Logic, 2010 The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
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Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2021 The objective of this paper is to describe the argumentative use of the expression "cognitive dissonance" on the social network Twitter. The descriptive approach which is developped here aims to report on the use of this lexeme in the context of ...
Leslie Pison
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, 2011 The quality of our public discourse – think of the climate change debate for instance – is never very high. A day spent observing it reveals a litany of misrepresentation and error, argumentative fallacy, and a general lack of good will.
Steve, Matthews
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 979-1007, December 2025.ABSTRACT Politicians from around the world are increasingly subject to harassment, with women disproportionately targeted. Recent changes in the sociopolitical landscape have influenced the nature and intensity of this harassment, with New Zealand being no exception. This qualitative study explores the experiences and impacts of harassment among female
Rhiannon Watson +4 more
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 6, Page 1858-1886, December 2025.Abstract Meta‐analyses have demonstrated how inoculation interventions increase the detection of misinformation, but their scalability has remained elusive. To address this, Study 1 (pre‐registered; N = 1,583) tested the efficacy of three short inoculation videos (prebunks) against three common manipulation tactics used in misinformation: (1 ...
Mikey Biddlestone +4 more
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The Odd Homonym Attack - A New Figure of Speech [PDF]
, 2010 Not to be confused with the classical ad hominem attack, our new odd homonym attack consists of replacing the target\u27s actual name with an unflattering homonym.
Golomb, Solomon W.
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Libertad, Dios y Metafísica [PDF]
, 2008 En este artículo se argumenta sobre la inconsistencia de la Idea de Libertad defendida por Juan Arana, dadas sus premisas sustancialistas y contradictorias; así como también se argumenta, ad hominem, sobre cómo la Idea tradicional de Dios, contemplada ...
Pérez Jara, Javier
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The Passions of Christ in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas: An Integrative Account [PDF]
, 2017 In recent scholarship, moral theologians and readers of Thomas Aquinas have shown increasing sensitivity to the role of the passions in the moral life.
Clem, Stewart
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Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
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