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4Trends in Argumentation LogicStudia Humana 11 (3-4): 1-5. 2022.In this paper, we introduce the subject of the special issue Trends in Argumentation Logic. Here we mainly describe two approaches to argumentation logic with explicating monotonic and non-monotonic, or defeasible, reasoning and explain the role of artificial intelligence in applying argumentation logic. Then we give a short overview of the papers contributed to the special issue.
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4In 2018, three journalists accused one of the Members of the Russian Parliament of harassment at workplace. Many influential persons of the Russian elite engaged themselves in the public discussion of the conflict. We studied that high-profiled discussion using a hybrid method merging human- and logic-oriented approaches in argumentation studies. The method develops ideas of the new dialectics, the argumentation logic and the logical-cognitive approach to argumentation, on which is based the alg…Read more
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Three Approaches to Criticisms and Support in Evaluation of ArgumentsДискурс 8 (2): 5-16. 2022.Introduction. In the article we defend a claim that criticisms and counterarguments play a more important role in modeling and evaluating arguments than defending and supporting the thesis. The novelty of this idea lies in that it shifts the main focus of the study of argumentation from the support and proof, with which it is traditionally associated, to criticism and refutation. Compared to the support and proof, criticism and refutation play more important role in the context of soft skills an…Read more
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12Judgements and Truth. Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 43 (1): 102-104. 2022.The volume assembles a remarkable topical diversity of papers collected on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Professor Jan Woleński’s, an eminent Polish analytic philo...
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6Argument from Ignorance and Argument from SilenceДискурс 7 (1): 5-16. 2021.Introduction. This article focuses on the specifics of the arguments from ignorance and arguments from silence. The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest of the scientific community in modeling of defeasible (presumptive) reasoning and verification of their validity.Methodology and sources. Methodologically, the work is based on the dialectical approach of D. Walton, who proposed a corpus of argumentation schemes for presumptive arguments and a methodology for testing their validi…Read more
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2Philosophical Propaedeutic, with the Elements of Logic and a Neo-Kantian Flavor. Book review: Adolf Trendelenburg. The Elements of Aristotle’s Logic. Translated into Russian from ancient Greek, Latin, German by B. Fokht, A. Vashestov, with a foreword by M. Dyomin, ed. by N. Dmitrieva. Moscow: Kanon+, 2017. 335p (review)Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 3 146-153. 2018.
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12Argumentation, Peer Disagreement and the Truth Birth in DisputeEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 56 (1): 81-100. 2019.We suggest a solution to the problem of peer disagreement based on the concept of divergence in opinions, imported from the theory of argumentation. We treat the problem of peer disagreement as a mental experiment, a duel between different concepts of truth, and show that there is no winner in it, whenever there is a deep disagreement between epistemic peers. Our approach amounts to two proposals, one formulates how to handle the truth and the other takes care of creating an agreement over it. W…Read more
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19Leon Petrażycki on Norms and Their Logical StudyStudia Humana 7 (4): 30-38. 2018.In this paper we discuss L. Petrażycki’s idea of norm as a normative relation and show its repercussions in two perspectives connected to each other, in the legal theory in the framework of which it was originally introduced and where its role was straightforward, and in logic where it played a shadowy role of a fresh idea which in his expectation would have been the core of the novel logical theories capable of modelling reasoning in law and morals. We pay attention to the scholarly environment…Read more
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310Why Protagoras Gets Paid Anyway: a Practical Solution of the Paradox of CourtΣΧΟΛΗ 11 (1): 63-79. 2017.The famous dispute between Protagoras and Euathlus concerning Protagoras’s tuition fee reportedly owed to him by Euathlus is solved on the basis of practical argumentation concerning actions. The dispute is widely viewed as a kind of a logical paradox, and I show that such treating arises due to the double confusion in the dispute narrative. The linguistic expressions used to refer to Protagoras’s, Euathlus’s and the jurors’ actions are confused with these actions themselves. The other confusion…Read more
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Практическая аргументация и античная медицинаSchole 10 (1): 227-259. 2016.The ancient art of healing and practical argumentation are closely linked, and this link points to three substantial issues: that physicians enjoy certain social status, that medicine is recognized as a special area of knowledge and that the art of healing is a profession. We use the analogy between the medicine and the judiciary for demonstrating these issues. The analogy involves two groups of norms governing the activities of judges – the norms of competence and the norms of conduct which we …Read more
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Софистика – это не аргументацияSchole 8 (2): 268-284. 2014.In the paper contemporary approaches to argumentation are compared with a number of ways of understanding sophistic including ancient, medieval and contemporary ‘faces’ of the latter. It is argued that the current stage is characterized by a negative evaluative understanding of sophistic which is taken mostly as sophistry. In the paper, I also show how these different approaches to sophistic such as illegitimate argumentation, particular illegitimate arguments and scholastic method of formulatin…Read more
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335Deontic ‘cocktail’ according to E. Mally’s receiptLogical Investigations 19 5-27. 2013.In 1926, Ernst Mally, an Austrian logician, has introduced a system of deontic logic in which he has proposed three fundamental distinctions which proved to be important in the context of the further development of the logic of norms. It is argued that in his philosophical considerations Mally has introduced a number of important distinctions concerning the very concept of norm, but by getting them confused in introducing the subsequent formalisms he failed to formally preserve them. In some of …Read more
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348FIVE STEPS TO RESPONSIBILITYRevista da Faculdade de Direito da UFMG 63 125-149. 2013.Responsibility has entered the academic discourse of logicians hardly more than few decades ago. I suggest a logical concept of responsibility which employs ideas both from a number of theories belonging to different branches of logic as well from other academic areas. As a comment to this concept, I suggest five steps narrative scenario in order to show how the logical dimension of responsibility emerges from diverse tendencies in logic and other sciences. Here are the five steps briefly stated…Read more
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335Argumentation, R. Pavilionis's meaning continuum and The Kitchen debateProblemos 88 95. 2015.In this paper, I propose a logical-cognitive approach to argumentation and advocate an idea that argumentation presupposes that intelligent agents engaged in it are cognitively diverse. My approach to argumentation allows drawing distinctions between justification, conviction and persuasion as its different kinds. In justification agents seek to verify weak or strong coherency of an agent’s position in a dialogue. In conviction they argue to modify their partner’s position by means of demonstrat…Read more