Add to ORKGMost studies of reason-giving have focussed on formal, planned situations rather than on how reason-giving functions in relatively unplanned discourse. This study looks at reason-giving by respondents to an anonymous telephone public-opinion survey, e xploring the relationship between fact, policy, and value claims and the types of reasons used to support those claims. The results resonate with two important areas in argumentation theory: argument fields and critical thinking. Further, I suggest that reason-giving can serve as a method for individuals to present themselves as human and thoughtfully reasonable
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Why is a multi-purpose word. It is the language of curiosity, evidence of intellectual engagement. ...
In this paper, I will look at what role being able to provide justification plays in several promine...
ABSTRACT: This paper explores why respondents to a telephone public-opinion survey often give reason...
Abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. How...
Argumentation involves offering and/or exchanging reasons—either reasons for adopting various attitu...
International audienceReasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better de...
One aspect of deliberation is giving reasons to support a position. In this article, I explore how c...
This paper explores various subtleties in our ordinary thought and talk about normative reasons—subt...
This thesis defends the claim that reason-giving is a discrete type of speech act (of an expressive...
Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. However, much...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
This essay defends fitting-attitudes accounts of value against the wrong kind of reason problem. I a...
The standard view of the function of reason is that it emerged to enable individuals to make better ...
Normative thinking -- thinking about what to do, what to believe, how to feel, and so on -- is somet...
Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attr...
Why is a multi-purpose word. It is the language of curiosity, evidence of intellectual engagement. ...
In this paper, I will look at what role being able to provide justification plays in several promine...
ABSTRACT: This paper explores why respondents to a telephone public-opinion survey often give reason...
Abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. How...
Argumentation involves offering and/or exchanging reasons—either reasons for adopting various attitu...
International audienceReasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better de...
One aspect of deliberation is giving reasons to support a position. In this article, I explore how c...
This paper explores various subtleties in our ordinary thought and talk about normative reasons—subt...
This thesis defends the claim that reason-giving is a discrete type of speech act (of an expressive...
Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. However, much...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
This essay defends fitting-attitudes accounts of value against the wrong kind of reason problem. I a...
The standard view of the function of reason is that it emerged to enable individuals to make better ...
Normative thinking -- thinking about what to do, what to believe, how to feel, and so on -- is somet...
Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attr...
Why is a multi-purpose word. It is the language of curiosity, evidence of intellectual engagement. ...
In this paper, I will look at what role being able to provide justification plays in several promine...