Argument Content and Argument Source: An Exploration

Psychopaths and blame: The argument from content

The recent debate over the moral responsibility of psychopaths has centered on whether, or in what sense, they understand moral requirements. In this paper, I argue that even if they do understand what morality requires, the content of their actions is not of the right kind to justify full-blown blame. I advance two independent justifications of this claim. First, I argue that if the psychopath...

Argument or no argument ?

We will call such adjuncts instances of the X or no X construction It was suggested in the middle 1980s by Alexis Manaster-Ramer that well-formed instances of X or no X involve a string X of unbounded length preceding or no, with an exact copy following (for a brief allusion to it in print, see Manaster-Ramer 1986). This claim has received hardly any discussion at all in the subsequent literatu...

Argument Construction, Argument Evaluation, And Decision-Making: A Content Analysis Of Argumentation And Debate Textbooks

ARGUMENT CONSTRUCTION, ARGUMENT EVALUATION, ANDDECISION-MAKING: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTATION ANDDEBATE TEXTBOOKSby NEIL BUTTMay 2010Advisor: Dr. Kelly YoungMajor: CommunicationDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyCritical thinking abilities, especially the advanced critical thinking abilities required fordecision-making, are important to both individuals an...

An Argument for Argument Ellipsis from -sika NPIs

The Doomsday Argument and the Simulation Argument

The Doomsday Argument and the Simulation Argument share certain structural features, and hence are often discussed together (Bostrom 2003, Are you living in a computer simulation, Philosophical Quarterly, 53:243–255; Aranyosi 2004, The Doomsday Simulation Argument. Or why isn’t the end nigh, and you’re not living in a simulation, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/190/; Richmond 2008, Doomsday, Bi...