Argumentation Schemes Book

Posted by simon on November 26, 2008

A new monograph on Argumentation Schemes co-authored by Doug Walton (Windsor), Fabrizio Macagno (Milan) and Chris Reed, and published by CUP is now out and available.

This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.

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Bart Verheij visiting

Posted by simon on November 19, 2008

 

Bart Verheij, from the AI department at the University of Groningen is visiting us for a couple of days. He is delivering a seminar on Waking Up from the Logical Dream, Or: Argumentation as a Content-Driven Activity at 12 noon today in Wolfson.

Waking Up from the Logical Dream, Or: Argumentation as a Content-Driven Activity – Bart Verheij

Imagine yourself being in court, having to defend your innocence of a serious crime. Let’s suppose that your defense fails, and you end up behind bars. Was it your – probably imperfect – control of the logic of argumentation that made you lose? Or, was the problem more a matter of content, for instance, your unconvincing alibi, or lack of knowledge of the law?

This talk will use the recent advances in the logic of argumentation as a starting point, continuing to the hard issue of understanding how much logic is helpful for argumentation. In the talk, the issue is addressed from the perspectives of argumentation software and of argumentation schemes. It will become clear that Toulmin’s research agenda (dating from the 1950s) is still relevant.

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