Feldman`s Reason and Argument

Argument Mapping with Reason!Able

As a profession, we have standard practices for handling reasoning and argumentation. One feature of these practices is so familiar and pervasive that it is almost invisible: the medium of philosophical argumentation is prose. We spend a great deal of time articulating arguments in written prose, and identifying arguments in the writings of others. The dominance of prose goes beyond writing; ev...

The Cosmological Argument, Sufficient Reason, and Why-Questions

No Belief without Reason: Logics of Argument-Based Beliefs

The paper addresses how the information state of an agent relates to the arguments that the agent endorses. Information states are modeled in doxastic logic and arguments by recasting abstract argumentation theory in a modal logic format. The two perspectives are combined by an application of the theory of product logics, delivering sound and complete systems in which the interaction of argumen...

Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

Formal Definitions of Reason Fallacies to Aid Defect Exploration in Argument Gaming

Reason fallacies are fallacious reasons presented in arguments during argumentative discussions. The fallacious reasons do not support the claim of argument and therefore, the argument gets defeated. Defect exploration is the process of analysing argument inconsistencies due to the presence of fallacious reasons. The context of argument exchange is a knowledge base represented in the form of In...