1.16. Philosophy of argumentation

Research of Fraunhofer FOKUS is theoretically based on Douglas Walton's philosophy of argumentation, which provides a theoretical foundation and normative model for plausible argumentation with defeasible generalizations, as needed for practical reasoning and decision-making in the face of incomplete and inconsistent information, conflicting goals and interests of multiple stakeholders, under time and other resource constraints (see Gordon et al., 2006; Walton, 2006, 2004, 2002, 1998).




References:

Gordon, T., Prakken, H., & Walton, D. (2006). The Carneades Model of Argument and Burden of Proof, preprint submitted to Elsevier (31st October 2006).

Walton, D. (1998a). Appeal to Popular Opinion. University Park, Pa.: Penn State Press.

Walton, D. (1998b). The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument. Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Walton, D. (2002). Ethical Argumentation. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.Walton, D. (2004). Relevance in Argumentation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Walton, D. (2006). Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. New York: Cambridge: University Press.

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