Abstract: Normative theories of argumentation tend to assume that logical and dialectical rules suffice to ensure the rationality of debates. Yet empirical research on human inference shows that people system-atically fall prey to cognitive and motivational biases which give rise to various forms of irrational reason-ing. Inasmuch as these biases are typically unconscious, arguers can be unfair and tendentious despite their genuine efforts to follow the rules of argumentation. I argue that arguers remain nevertheless respon-sible for the rationality of their rea-soning, insofar as they can (and ar-guably ought to) counteract such biases by adopting indirect strategies of argumentative self-control. Résumé: Les théories normatives de l’argum...
This paper focuses on the effects of motivational biases on the way people reason and debate in ever...
Starting from Sperber and Mercier’s theory (2011) on the relationship between reasoning and arguing...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...
Normative theories of argumentation tend to assume that logical and dialectical rules suffice to ens...
One of the central tasks of a theory of argumentation is to supply a theory of appraisal: a set of s...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
ABSTRACT: From a decision theoretic perspective, arguments stem from decisions made by arguers. Desp...
Problem setting. During the period of expansion of the practice of argumentation in society, thanks ...
Abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. How...
The paper offers a theoretical investigation into the sources of normativity in practical argumentat...
By synthesizing the argumentation theory of new rhetoric with research on heuristics and motivated r...
This study argues that the rationality behind strategic decisions, which is characterized as express...
Entry in International Encyclopedia of Ethics on Ethical considerations bearing on Argumentation
The purpose of the paper is to draw attention to a kind of rational persuasion which has received li...
This paper focuses on the effects of motivational biases on the way people reason and debate in ever...
Starting from Sperber and Mercier’s theory (2011) on the relationship between reasoning and arguing...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...
Normative theories of argumentation tend to assume that logical and dialectical rules suffice to ens...
One of the central tasks of a theory of argumentation is to supply a theory of appraisal: a set of s...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
ABSTRACT: From a decision theoretic perspective, arguments stem from decisions made by arguers. Desp...
Problem setting. During the period of expansion of the practice of argumentation in society, thanks ...
Abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. How...
The paper offers a theoretical investigation into the sources of normativity in practical argumentat...
By synthesizing the argumentation theory of new rhetoric with research on heuristics and motivated r...
This study argues that the rationality behind strategic decisions, which is characterized as express...
Entry in International Encyclopedia of Ethics on Ethical considerations bearing on Argumentation
The purpose of the paper is to draw attention to a kind of rational persuasion which has received li...
This paper focuses on the effects of motivational biases on the way people reason and debate in ever...
Starting from Sperber and Mercier’s theory (2011) on the relationship between reasoning and arguing...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...