Argumentation-based Dialogue

Dialogue is fundamental to argumentation, providing a dialectical basis for establishing which arguments are acceptable. Argumentation can also be used as the basis for dialogue. In such ``argumentation-based'' dialogues, participants take part in an exchange of arguments, and the mechanisms of argumentation are used to establish what participants take to be acceptable at the end of the exchange. This chapter considers such dialogues, discussing the elements that are required in order to carry out argumentation-based dialogues, giving examples, and discussing open issues