1. RATIONAL ARGUMENT IN EARLY ATHENIAN ORATORY

Rational argument, rational inference

Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which human inference measures up to normative standards. Work here has been dominated by logic, but logic has little to say about most everyday, informal arguments. Empirical work on argumentation within psychology and education has studied the development and improvement of argumentation skills, but h...

Rational Actors , Political Argument , and Democratic Deliberation

Judging Athenian Dramatic Competitions

The judging procedure for Athenian dramatic contests is not well understood. In this paper, we present a new model that we believe takes account of all the relevant data, which possesses the additional virtue of clarity of execution, so that a large festival audience can easily follow the proceedings as the winner is determined publicly. It differs in certain important respects from other inter...

Practical Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in Rational Argument-Based Negotiation

Recent years have seen an increasing interest of multiagent system research in employing the theory of argumentation for the development of communication protocols. While significant progress has been made in formalising argument-based communication, (possibly adaptive) agent-level argumentation strategies as a practical integration of rational agent reasoning and inter-agent argumentation dial...

The Athenian harem: Orientalism and the historiography of Athenian women in the nineteenth century

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