Bart Verheij, from the AI department at the University of Groningen is visiting us for a couple of days. He is delivering a seminar on Waking Up from the Logical Dream, Or: Argumentation as a Content-Driven Activity at 12 noon today in Wolfson.
Waking Up from the Logical Dream, Or: Argumentation as a Content-Driven Activity – Bart Verheij
Imagine yourself being in court, having to defend your innocence of a serious crime. Let’s suppose that your defense fails, and you end up behind bars. Was it your – probably imperfect – control of the logic of argumentation that made you lose? Or, was the problem more a matter of content, for instance, your unconvincing alibi, or lack of knowledge of the law?
This talk will use the recent advances in the logic of argumentation as a starting point, continuing to the hard issue of understanding how much logic is helpful for argumentation. In the talk, the issue is addressed from the perspectives of argumentation software and of argumentation schemes. It will become clear that Toulmin’s research agenda (dating from the 1950s) is still relevant.
