- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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General Introduction
Pages 1-31
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An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures
Pages 33-51
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Introduction to Part I
Pages 55-64
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The Consensual Dynamics of Simple Random Debates
Pages 65-80
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The Consensual Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge
Pages 81-92
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs
- Authors
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- Gregor Betz
- Series Title
- Synthese Library
- Series Volume
- 357
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-4599-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-4599-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-4598-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8426-9
- Series ISSN
- 0166-6991
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 258
- Topics
