Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
collective goals of arguers, constitutive goal of argumentation, critical testing, external uses of argumentation, individual aims of arguers, intrinsic function of argumentation, justifying, (rational) persuasion.
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
In this paper, I critically examine the main accounts of goals in argumentative discourse, aiming to formulate an account that is suitable for the examination of public political arguments, where typically multiple legitimate goals are pursued simultaneously. Such arguments are viewed as contributions to what can be dialectically reconstructed as multiple simultaneous discussions, and are analysed as strategic manoeuvres that can under certain conditions be reasonable but may, if such conditions are violated, become fallacious.
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In this paper, I critically examine the main accounts of goals in argumentative discourse, aiming to formulate an account that is suitable for the examination of public political arguments, where typically multiple legitimate goals are pursued simultaneously. Such arguments are viewed as contributions to what can be dialectically reconstructed as multiple simultaneous discussions, and are analysed as strategic manoeuvres that can under certain conditions be reasonable but may, if such conditions are violated, become fallacious.
