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- Uses a highly innovative and original research method: multi-agent simulation of controversial debate
- Addresses both the practical and theoretical implications of truth- and consensus-conduciveness of controversial argumentation
- Is accessible to a wide audience, including scholars with no background in philosophy
- Relates to striving fields in philosophy, i.e. judgement aggregation, social epistemology, simulation of opinion dynamics
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 357)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
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How Do We Know? On the Truth-conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gregor Betz
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs
Authors: Gregor Betz
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4599-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4598-8Published: 16 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8426-9Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4599-5Published: 15 August 2012
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 258
Topics: Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence