Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
argument evaluation, multi-modal argumentation, normative revisionism, normative non-revisionism, visual argument.
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
While pictures can persuade, can they do so rationally – by offering reasons? Existing debate has focused on whether images are – or can be – arguments. Yet, from a normative perspective, a more pressing question concerns how the persuasive operation of images ought to be evaluated. By analyzing the concept of argument as necessarily involving reasons the paper argues that the possibility of visual arguments requires no revision to our existing normative theories of argument.
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Ian J. Dove, Commentery on: David Godden's "On the norms of visual argument"
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Ian J. Dove, Commentery on: David Godden's "On the norms of visual argument" (May 2013)
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While pictures can persuade, can they do so rationally – by offering reasons? Existing debate has focused on whether images are – or can be – arguments. Yet, from a normative perspective, a more pressing question concerns how the persuasive operation of images ought to be evaluated. By analyzing the concept of argument as necessarily involving reasons the paper argues that the possibility of visual arguments requires no revision to our existing normative theories of argument.
