Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation (Controversies)

Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Acronyms......Page 14
Introduction: Dialog theory for Critical Argumentation......Page 16
1. The place of dialog theory......Page 20
1	The rebirth of dialog theory......Page 21
2	Dialog theory in computing......Page 29
3	Agent communication......Page 34
4	Fundamental concepts of dialog theory......Page 39
5	The Critical discussion as a type of dialog......Page 44
6	Plan recognition and deliberation......Page 48
7	The BDI model and the commitment model......Page 53
8	The problem of retraction......Page 55
9	Communication and information......Page 59
10	The future and past of dialog theory......Page 62
2. The history of dialectic......Page 66
1	Origins of dialectic in ancient philosophy......Page 67
2	The dialectic of Socrates and Plato......Page 70
3	Aristotelian dialectic......Page 75
4 Aristotle\'s classification of types of dialog......Page 81
5	Medieval dialectic......Page 84
6	Dialectic in modern philosophy......Page 87
7	 The re-appearance of dialectic......Page 90
8	Eight characteristics of dialectic......Page 93
9 Hamblin\'s dialog rules......Page 98
10	Functions of questioning and asserting......Page 101
11	The Future of dialectic as a subject......Page 105
3. Persuasion dialog......Page 108
1	Persuasion in rhetoric and dialectic......Page 109
2	Characteristics of persuasion dialog......Page 114
3	Defeasibility and acceptance......Page 120
4	Evidence, testing, and burden of proof......Page 125
5	Dialogs, truth and relativism......Page 129
6	The charge of pernicious relativism......Page 131
7	Judging the maieutic depth of a persuasion dialog......Page 135
8	Aiming at the truth......Page 140
9	Truth, evidence and acceptance......Page 143
10	Conclusions......Page 146
4. Mutlti-agent dialog systems......Page 150
1	Agent communication systems......Page 151
2	Speech acts......Page 156
3 Interrogative messages in ACL\'s......Page 159
4	Conversation policies......Page 162
5	Sincerity conditions......Page 164
6	Understanding of messages......Page 167
7	Rational effects of a message......Page 170
8	Future multi-agent systems and dialog theory......Page 172
5. Agents in critical argumentation......Page 178
1	The case of the critical discussion on euthanasia......Page 179
2	Fallacy and deception......Page 183
3	Current systems of formal dialectic......Page 186
4	Implicit commitment and Gricean implicature......Page 192
5	Adding speech acts and agents to formal dialectic......Page 195
6	What characteristics of an agent are needed?......Page 199
7	Expectations and plausible inference......Page 204
8	Plans, strategies and chaining forward......Page 206
9	Strategies in formal dialectic......Page 210
10	Qualities of character for agents in formal dialectic......Page 219
6. Dialectical shifts and embeddings......Page 224
1	Dialectical shifts and fallacies......Page 225
2	The problem of shifts and embeddings......Page 231
3	Cases of shifts based on embeddings......Page 235
4	Cases of shifts not based on embeddings......Page 240
5	Argumentation schemes......Page 245
6	Analysis of the cases based on embeddings......Page 249
7	Analysis of the cases not based on embeddings......Page 252
8	Fitting dialogs together at global and local levels......Page 254
9	Metadialogs......Page 258
10	Solving the embedding problem......Page 260
7. Criticizing a natural language argument......Page 266
1	Explanation, clarification and interpretation......Page 267
2	The three stages of critical assessment......Page 272
3	Plan recognition and incomplete arguments......Page 275
4	New tools for argument diagramming......Page 280
5	The problem of enthymemes......Page 284
6	Three bases for the enthymeme......Page 287
7	Textual interpretation as an abductive process......Page 293
8	Textual interpretation as simulative......Page 296
9 Anticipating an arguer\'s future moves......Page 300
10	The problem of diffuse dialog......Page 304
Bibliography......Page 308
Index......Page 322
The series Controversies......Page 328