ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-04-09DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09549-z
Michael D. Baumtrog
{"title":"Designing Critical Questions for Argumentation Schemes","authors":"Michael D. Baumtrog","doi":"10.1007/s10503-021-09549-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-021-09549-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper offers insights into the nature and design of critical questions as they are found in argumentation schemes. In the first part of the paper, I address some general concerns regarding their purpose and formulation. These include a discussion of their evaluative function, their relationship with the patterns of reasoning they accompany, as well as the differing formulations of critical questions currently on offer. I argue that the purpose of critical questions for humans ought to be to provide the means for a scalar evaluation of the reasoning at hand. To do so, critical questions should be closely paired with individual premises in the accompanying pattern of reasoning and be open-ended. Doing so allows the roles of raising considerations relevant for the reasoning and scrutinizing those considerations to be clearly distinguished. In the second part of the paper, I offer a positive methodological proposal for the construction of questions and premises that aims at overcoming a number of the individual and systematic shortcomings of extant question styles. The paper concludes by arguing that the newly proposed approach is both normatively strong and practically useful for argumentation in context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 4","pages":"629 - 643"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-021-09549-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50464520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-03-27DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09548-0
Maria Ferreira
{"title":"Compliance with EU Law and Argumentative Discourse: Representing the EU as a Problem-Solving Multilevel Governance System through Discursive Structures of Argumentation","authors":"Maria Ferreira","doi":"10.1007/s10503-021-09548-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-021-09548-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes how, during the Juncker Presidency (2014–2019), the European Commission employed argumentative strategies to address the question of member-states’ compliance with European Union (EU) law. There is a literature gap regarding how European leaders employ argumentative strategies to coax member-states to comply with EU legislation and how those strategies can be associated with multilevel governance designs and problem-solving approaches. Building on van Eemeren and Grootendorst’s (A systematic theory of argumentation. The Pragma-dialectical approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004) pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation, the paper explores what dialectical and rhetorical strategies were employed by the Juncker European Commission to build an argumentative regime where the question of compliance with European Union law is articulated with the representation of the European Union as an efficient multilevel governance system. Starting from the distinction between procedural and operational concepts of problem-solving in multilevel governance polities (Maggetti in Public Administration 97:355–369, 2019), the paper questions whether the Juncker Commission’s arguments on the need to ensure European Union law compliance favor a particular conception of problem-solving in multilevel governance systems. The paper argues that the argumentative strategies employed by the Juncker European Commission in the field of compliance reveal a preference for an operational notion of problem-solving combined with some aspects of a more procedural perspective of problem-solving in multilevel governance polities. The background of this paper is associated with the growing impact that European legislation has on member-states and also with the efforts developed by the Juncker European Commission in discussing how to improve EU regulation to increase compliance with EU law.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 4","pages":"645 - 665"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-021-09548-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50518504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09547-1
Harm Kloosterhuis
{"title":"Presumptions and Burdens of Proof. An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law. ed. by H. V. Hansen, F. J. Kauffeld, J. B. Freeman, and L. Bermejo-Luque. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019","authors":"Harm Kloosterhuis","doi":"10.1007/s10503-021-09547-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-021-09547-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 2","pages":"357 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-021-09547-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50510422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.1007/s10503-020-09543-x
Olena Yaskorska-Shah
{"title":"Managing the Complexity of Dialogues in Context: A Data-Driven Discovery Method for Dialectical Reply Structures","authors":"Olena Yaskorska-Shah","doi":"10.1007/s10503-020-09543-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-020-09543-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current formal dialectical models postulate normative rules that enable discussants to conduct dialogical interactions without committing fallacies. Though the rules for conducting a dialogue are supposed to apply to interactions between actual arguers, they are without exception theoretically motivated. This creates a gap between model and reality, because dialogue participants typically leave important content-related elements implicit. Therefore, analysts cannot readily relate normative rules to actual debates in ways that will be empirically confirmable. This paper details a new, data-driven method for describing discussants’ actual reply structures, wherein corpus studies serve to acknowledge the complexity of natural argumentation (itself understood as a function of context). Rather than refer exclusively to propositional content as an indicator of arguing pro/contra a given claim, the proposed approach to dialogue structure tracks the sequence of dialogical moves itself. This arguably improves the applicability of theoretical dialectical models to empirical data, and thus advances the study of dialogue systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 4","pages":"551 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-020-09543-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50496232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-01-13DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09546-2
Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz
{"title":"Affecting Argumentative Action: The Temporality of Decisive Emotion","authors":"Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz","doi":"10.1007/s10503-021-09546-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-021-09546-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the interrelations between temporality and emotion in rhetorical argumentation. It argues that in situations of uncertainty argumentation affects action via appeals that invoke emotion and thereby translate the distant past and future into the situated present. Using practical inferences, a threefold model for the interrelation of emotion and time in argumentation outlines how argumentative action depends on whether speakers provide reasons for the exigence that makes a decision necessary, the contingency of the decision, and the confidence required to act. Experiences and choices from the past influence the emotions experienced in the present and inform two intertemporal mechanisms that allow speakers and audiences to take the leap of faith that defines decision-making under uncertainty: retrospective forecasting and prospective remembering. Retrospective forecasting establishes a past–future–present link, whereas prospective remembering establishes a future-past-present link, and, together, the two mechanisms provide a situated presence that transcends the temporal constraints of uncertainty. Finally, the applicability of the model is illustrated through an analysis of a speech delivered by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time where the need for decisive, yet argumentative action was crucial.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 4","pages":"603 - 627"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-021-09546-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25360411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10503-020-09545-9
Bin Wang, Frank Zenker
{"title":"Slippery Slope Arguments in Legal Contexts: Towards Argumentative Patterns","authors":"Bin Wang, Frank Zenker","doi":"10.1007/s10503-020-09545-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10503-020-09545-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Addressing the slippery slope argument (SSA) in legal contexts from the perspective of pragma-dialectics, this paper elaborates the conditions under which an SSA-scheme instance is used reasonably (rather than fallaciously). We review SSA-instances in past legal decisions and analyze the basic legal SSA-scheme. By illustrating the institutional preconditions influencing the reasoning by which an SSA moves forward, we identify three sub-schemes (causal SSA, analogical SSA, and <i>Sorites</i> SSA). For each sub-scheme we propose critical questions, as well as four rules that clarify when the SSA scheme is used reasonably. The institutional preconditions make the analogical SSA expectable in common law contexts; the <i>Sorites</i> SSA is expectable in civil law contexts; whereas the causal SSA is common to both contexts. This result should inform future work on the identification of typical argumentative patterns for the SSA in legal contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"35 4","pages":"581 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10503-020-09545-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50448610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArgumentationPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.14275/2465-2334/202112.GIL
A. Gilio, G. Sanfilippo
{"title":"On compound and iterated conditionals","authors":"A. Gilio, G. Sanfilippo","doi":"10.14275/2465-2334/202112.GIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202112.GIL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90136218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}