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17Pressure and Argumentation in Public ControversiesInformal Logic 39 (3): 205-227. 2019.When can exerting pressure in a public controversy promote reasonable outcomes, and when is it rather a hindrance? We show how negotiation and persuasion dialogue can be intertwined. Then, we examine in what ways one can in a public controversy exert pressure on others through sanctions or rewards. Finally, we discuss from the viewpoints of persuasion and negotiation whether and, if so, how pressure hinders the achievement of a reasonable outcome.
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15Mark Vorobej (2006): A Theory of Argument: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 324 pp (review)Argumentation 23 (2): 285-290. 2009.
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12Arguments from Popularity: Their Merits and Defects in Argumentative DiscussionTopoi 42 (2): 609-623. 2023.How to understand and assess arguments in which the popularity of an opinion is put forward as a reason to accept that opinion? There exist widely diverging views on how to analyse and evaluate such arguments from popularity. First, I define the concept of an argument from popularity, and show that typical appeals to the popularity of a policy are not genuine arguments from popularity. Second, I acknowledge the importance of some recent probability-based accounts according to which some argument…Read more
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8Argument Schemes from the Point of View of Hamblin’s DialecticInformal Logic 31 (4): 344-366. 2011.This paper aims at a normative account of non-deductive argumentation schemes in the spirit of Hamblin’s dialectical philosophy. First, three principles are presented that characterize Hamblin’s dialectical stance. Second, argumentation schemes, which have hardly been examined in Hamblin’s book Fallacies, shall be dealt with by applying these principles, taking an argumentation scheme from authority as the leading example. Third, a formal dialectical system, along the lines indicated by Hamblin,…Read more
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1Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (edited book)College Publications. 2020.
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1Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation, Vol. II (edited book)College Publications. 2020.
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Reason to Dissent: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation, Vol. III (edited book)College Publications+. 2020.
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Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (edited book)College Publications. 2020.
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
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Verbal Disputes |
Argument |
Critical Thinking |
Fallacies |
The Nature of Reasoning |
Reasoning, Misc |
Epistemology of Disagreement |
Areas of Interest
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Argument |
Critical Thinking |
Deductive Reasoning |
Fallacies |
The Nature of Reasoning |
Deliberation |
Verbal Disputes |