{"title":"The epistemological orientation of Ottoman argumentation theory and its relation to kalām","authors":"Serkan Ince","doi":"10.1075/jaic.22021.inc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.22021.inc","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Islamic (Ottoman) argumentation theories provide strong evidence that the argumentation theory advocated by\u0000 Ottoman theorists was epistemologically oriented, and has strong parallels with the argumentation theory of kalām\u0000 (dialectical theology); indeed Ottoman argumentation theory and kalām interacted intensively and influenced each\u0000 other. This article traces some snapshots of this discourse. In doing so, key concepts of Islamic (Ottoman) argumentation theories\u0000 are introduced.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138997659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid-19 and public debate over gain-of-function research on\u0000 potentially pandemic pathogens","authors":"Gordon R. Mitchell","doi":"10.1075/jaic.00020.mit","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.00020.mit","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Controversial “gain-of-function” research (GoFR) aims to improve\u0000 understanding of human health by studying behavior of genetically altered\u0000 viruses in laboratory experiments. GoFR proponents tout its potential to support\u0000 public health disease surveillance, drug development and vaccine innovation,\u0000 while skeptics warn that unplanned laboratory release of genetically altered\u0000 pathogens could harm millions in pandemics caused by science. Public interest in\u0000 GoFR grew during the Covid-19 pandemic, as theories circulated that SARS-CoV-2\u0000 was the result of GoFR conducted at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u0000 Analysis of a 2015 public debate on GoFR research, reconstructed according to\u0000 pragma-dialectical argumentation theory, sheds light on the increasingly salient\u0000 scientific controversy and contributes to the growing literature on\u0000 argumentation and health.","PeriodicalId":41908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Argumentation in Context","volume":"2 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139000637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}