Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation

Name: Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Douglas N. Walton(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 19. September 2007

XVIII, 308 Seiten

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Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Introduction: Dialog theory for Critical Argumentation
1. The place of dialog theory
1 The rebirth of dialog theory
2 Dialog theory in computing
3 Agent communication
4 Fundamental concepts of dialog theory
5 The Critical discussion as a type of dialog
6 Plan recognition and deliberation
7 The BDI model and the commitment model
8 The problem of retraction
9 Communication and information
10 The future and past of dialog theory
2. The history of dialectic
1 Origins of dialectic in ancient philosophy
2 The dialectic of Socrates and Plato
3 Aristotelian dialectic
4 Aristotle's classification of types of dialog
5 Medieval dialectic
6 Dialectic in modern philosophy
7 The re-appearance of dialectic
8 Eight characteristics of dialectic
9 Hamblin's dialog rules
10 Functions of questioning and asserting
11 The Future of dialectic as a subject
3. Persuasion dialog
1 Persuasion in rhetoric and dialectic
2 Characteristics of persuasion dialog
3 Defeasibility and acceptance
4 Evidence, testing, and burden of proof
5 Dialogs, truth and relativism
6 The charge of pernicious relativism
7 Judging the maieutic depth of a persuasion dialog
8 Aiming at the truth
9 Truth, evidence and acceptance
10 Conclusions
4. Mutlti-agent dialog systems
1 Agent communication systems
2 Speech acts
3 Interrogative messages in ACL's
4 Conversation policies
5 Sincerity conditions
6 Understanding of messages
7 Rational effects of a message
8 Future multi-agent systems and dialog theory
5. Agents in critical argumentation
1 The case of the critical discussion on euthanasia
2 Fallacy and deception
3 Current systems of formal dialectic
4 Implicit commitment and Gricean implicature
5 Adding speech acts and agents to formal dialectic
6 What characteristics of an agent are needed?
7 Expectations and plausible inference
8 Plans, strategies and chaining forward
9 Strategies in formal dialectic
10 Qualities of character for agents in formal dialectic
6. Dialectical shifts and embeddings
1 Dialectical shifts and fallacies
2 The problem of shifts and embeddings
3 Cases of shifts based on embeddings
4 Cases of shifts not based on embeddings
5 Argumentation schemes
6 Analysis of the cases based on embeddings
7 Analysis of the cases not based on embeddings
8 Fitting dialogs together at global and local levels
9 Metadialogs
10 Solving the embedding problem
7. Criticizing a natural language argument
1 Explanation, clarification and interpretation
2 The three stages of critical assessment
3 Plan recognition and incomplete arguments
4 New tools for argument diagramming
5 The problem of enthymemes
6 Three bases for the enthymeme
7 Textual interpretation as an abductive process
8 Textual interpretation as simulative
9 Anticipating an arguer's future moves
10 The problem of diffuse dialog
Bibliography
Index
The series Controversies

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