Seminar: Coalescent Argumentation
Prof S.R.L. Clark
Subject: Advance Notice of Seminar -- Mon 23.7.01
This is advance notice of an Agent ART Group seminar to be held later in the
month. All are welcome.
TITLE: "Coalescent Argumentation: An Overview"
SPEAKER: Michael A. Gilbert
Philosophy Department
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
DATE: Monday, 23 July 2001
TIME: To be advised
LOCATION: Seminar Room, Second Floor,
Department of Computer Science, Chadwick Building
University of Liverpool.
ABSTRACT:
This presentation begins with a short overview of recent developments in
Argumentation Theory, a field that has changed and developed dramatically
since its beginnings in the 1950s. The field is presented in its
inter-disciplinary character by emphasizing contributions from Informal Logic,
Communication Theory, and Discourse Analysis. I then move on to my two-fold
approach to the subject. This involves, first, the explanation and defense of
the theory of multi-modal argumentation, which is a descriptive view which
sees communication and argumentation taking place in and on levels beyond the
logical and discursive. The second component, the normative arm of the theory,
is coalescent argumentation, an approach to argument which emphasizes agreement
by focusing on goals shared by the partners in a dissensual communication.
RESUME:
Michael A. Gilbert is a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto,
Canada. He has been working in the area of Argumentation Theory for close to
thirty years. He is the author of Coalescent Argumentation [1997] and How to Win
an Argument [1996], as well as numerous articles. His other main area of
research is Gender Theory. (http://argthry.gilbert1.net.)
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Peter McBurney
Agent Applications, Research and Technology (Agent ART) Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 7ZF
U.K.
Tel: + 44 151 794 6768
Email: P.J.Mc...@csc.liv.ac.uk
Web page: www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/
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