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Other-Regarding Virtues and Their Place in Virtue Argumentation Theory

Informal Logic, 2020
In this paper, I argue that, despite the progress made in recent years, virtue argumentation theory still lacks a more systematic acknowledgment of other-regarding virtues.
Felipe Oliveira de Sousa
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Bogency and Goodacies: On Argument Quality in Virtue Argumentation Theory

Informal Logic, 2015
Virtue argumentation theory (VAT) has been charged of being incomplete, given its alleged inability to account for argument cogency in virtue-theoretical terms. Instead of defending VAT against that challenge, I suggest it is misplaced, since it is based
Fabio Paglieri
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Virtue and Argument: Taking Character Into Account [PDF]

Informal Logic, 2013
In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ...
Tracy Bowell, Justine Kingsbury
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From Virtue Argumentation to Virtue Dialogue Theory: How Aristotle Shifts the Conversation for Virtue Theory and Education*

Educational Theory, 2023
AbstractAndrew Aberdein recently explored whether Aristotle held a (proto‐)virtue argumentation theory, which would evaluate a good argument in terms of whether the arguers engaged virtuously. Aberdein admits, however, that connections between virtue, character, and argumentation are scarce within Aristotle's works.
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Rethinking Virtue in Legal Decision-Making: A Perspective from Virtue Argumentation Theory

Topoi
Zihan Niu, Minghui Xiong
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Sequencing Critical Moves for Ethical Argumentation Practice: Munāẓara and the Interdependence of Procedure and Agent

Informal Logic, 2023
The aim of this paper is to highlight an interdependence between procedural and agential norms that undermines their neat separation when appraising argumentation.
Rahmi Oruç, Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Karim Sadek   +2 more
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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments

Informal Logic, 2015
Argumentation theorists are beginning to think of ad hominem arguments as generally legitimate. Virtue argumentation theorists argue that a character trait approach to argument appraisal can explain why ad hominems would are legitimate, when they are ...
Patrick Bondy
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In Defence of Virtue: The Legitimacy of Agent-Based Argument Appraisal

Informal Logic, 2014
Several authors have recently begun to apply virtue theory to argumentation. Critics of this programme have suggested that no such theory can avoid committing an ad hominem fallacy.
Andrew Aberdein
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THE VIRTUOUS CITIZEN: REGIMES AND AUDIENCES

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2017
The purpose of the present paper is to sketch the possibility of an audience theory specific to virtue argumentation taking as a starting point what Aristotle has to say about political audiences in the context of specific political constitutions and ...
Iovan DREHE DREHE
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Critical Thinking in Moral Argumentation Contexts: A Virtue Ethical Approach

Informal Logic, 2012
In traditional analytic philosophy, critical thinking is defined along Cartesian lines as rational and linear reasoning preclusive of intuitions, emotions and lived experience.
Michelle Ciurria
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