Overview
- Is the first step-by-step analysis of a long argumentative dialogue
- Contrasts two different argumentation theories as applied to the same argumentative dialogue
- Examines the most famous philosophical face-to-face debate about a question of perennial interest
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 41)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A P-Theoretical Analysis of the Debate, by Fernando Leal
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Front Matter
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An E-Theoretical Analysis of the Debate, by Hubert Marraud
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Philosophical Argumentation
- Metaphilosophy
- Pragma-dialectics
- Argumentation in Context
- Traditional Philosophical Debates
- Proofs of God’s Existence
- Frederick Copleston
- Bertrand Russell
- BBC controversial debates
- Philosophical Arguments
- famous philosophical face-to-face debate
- model of reasonableness
- Historical introduction to the Russell-Copleston debate
- Theoretical introduction to the Russell-Copleston debate
- Transcript of the debate to the Russell-Copleston debate
- debate about the existence of God
About this book
This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God. It includes an introduction justifying the choice of text and describing the historical and philosophical background of the debate. It also provides a transcript of the debate, based in part on the original recording.
The argumentative analyses occupy Parts I and II of the book. In Part I the argumentative process is analysed by means of the ideal model of critical discussion, the workhorse of pragma-dialectics. Part I shows how the two parties go through the four stages of a critical discussion. It highlights the questions raised over and beyond the presiding question of whether God exists and examines almost a hundred questions that are raised. Many are left in the air, whereas a few others give rise to sundry sub-discussions or meta-dialogues. In Part II the theoretical framework of argument dialectic is put to work: argument structures are identified by means of punctuation marks, argumentative connectors and operators, allowing to see the argumentative exchange as the collaborative construction of a macro-argument. Such a macro-argument is both a joint product of the arguers and a complex structure representing the dialectical relationships between the individual arguments combined in it. Finally, the complementarity of the two approaches is addressed. Thus the book can be described as an exercise in adversarial collaboration.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Fernando Leal Trained in Germany in philosophy, classical scholarship, and general linguistics, he founded the first research center for the study of contemporary Mexican Indian languages. As a professor of research methodology, he has sought the unification of that field with the fields of academic writing and argumentation theory. He is currently working on applying pragma-dialectical theory to the study of philosophical argumentation in particular and academic argumentation in general. To serve that purpose, he is trying to put questioning and questions at the center of interest of argumentation theory. He is author of over 150 academic papers and has authored or edited over 10 books. More information at academia.edu (guadalajara.academia.edu/FernandoLeal).
Hubert Marraud From 2005 on, after a first period as formal logician, I work in Argumentation Theory. My view of the Theory of Argument is developed in the book ¿Es lógic@? Análisis y evaluación de argumentos [Is it logic? Is it logical? Analysis and evaluation of arguments] (Madrid, 2013). My position is characterized by:
(1) My definition of arguing as offering for examination something as a reason for another thing.
(2) The importance I attach to argumentative connectors and operators.
(3) The use of a version of the Toulmin model to describe the structure of arguments
(4) The attention given to counterargumentation.
(5) The advocacy for a comparative or topological concept of cogency, grounded on the notion of argument strength or weight.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Philosophers Argue
Book Subtitle: An Adversarial Collaboration on the Russell--Copleston Debate
Authors: Fernando Leal, Hubert Marraud
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85368-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85367-9Published: 22 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85370-9Published: 23 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85368-6Published: 21 February 2022
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 472
Number of Illustrations: 244 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Philosophy