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Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Gregor Betz

    1. Institute of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • 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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Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory. Aside from its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. General Introduction

    • Gregor Betz
    Pages 1-31

  3. An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures

    • Gregor Betz
    Pages 33-51

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 247-255
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Gregor Betz

About the author

Gregor Betz is a Junior professor in Philosophy of Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. With a background in philosophy, mathematics and political sciences, he has held positions at Universität Stuttgart and Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests span philosophy of science, argumentation theory, applied ethics and the interpretation of classic philosophers.

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