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The Grammar of Obviousness: The Palm-Up Gesture in Argument Sequences
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper investigates the body’s role in grammar in argument sequences. Drawing from a database of public disputes on language use, we document the work of the palm-up gesture in action formation.
Olivia H. Marrese +4 more
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Argument Explanation Complementarity and the Structure of Informal Reasoning
Informal Logic, 2010 : Argument and explanation are distinct forms of reasoning with an underappreciated complementary relationship. In this essay I define these terms precisely, identify the mischief that results from conflating them, elucidate their complementary ...
Gregory Randolph Mayes
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Argument Quality in Real World Argumentation [PDF]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 The idea of resolving dispute through the exchange of arguments and reasons has been central to society for millennia. We exchange arguments as a way of getting at the truth in contexts as diverse as science, the court room, and our everyday lives. In democracies, political decisions should be negotiated through argument, not deception, or even worse ...
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In Defense of the Objective Epistemic Approach to Argumentation
Informal Logic, 2008 In this paper we defend a particular version of the epistemic approach to argumentation. We advance some general considerations in favor of the approach and then examine the ways in which different versions of it play out with respect to the theory of ...
John Biro, Harvey Siegel
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Hedenius’ Soteriological Argument from Evil [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper I explicate and assess a logical argument from evil put forth by the Swedish analytic philosopher Ingemar Hedenius in his book Tro och vetande, by far the most famous and influential critique of Christianity in Swedish intellectual history.
Kraal, Anders
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2005 Argumentation is based on the exchange and valuation of interacting arguments, followed by the selection of the most acceptable of them (for example, in order to take a decision, to make a choice). Starting from the framework proposed by Dung in 1995, our purpose is to introduce 'graduality' in the selection of the best arguments, i.e., to be able to ...
Claudette Cayrol +1 more
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L'anàlisi filosòfica en G.E. Moore i la seva relació amb el sentit comú i el llenguatge ordinari
Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 1997 Aquest treball explora la concepció de l'anàlisi de Moore tot relacionant-la amb la sevadefensa del sentit comú i el llenguatge ordinari com el seu vehicle d'expressió.
Marta Moragas
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Millican on the Ontological Argument [PDF]
, 2007 Peter Millican (2004) provides a novel and elaborate objection to Anselm’s ontological argument. Millican thinks that his objection is more powerful than any other because it does not dispute contentious ‘deep philosophical theories’ that underlie the ...
Nagasawa, Yujin
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Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019 This issue of the Journal of Medical covers a range of ethical issues and care settings making the task of beginning to summarise these papers challenging. They reflect the diversity of our field, representing different branches of bioethics focussing on specific areas or topics using a variety of methodologies: but how do we categorise these branches ...
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2020 This research paper examines the communication strategies adopted by the Bank of England to create trust in financial markets using narrative and argument.
Laurence Harris
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