Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument

Computer-assisted safety argument review - a dialectics approach

There has been increasing use of argument-based approaches in the development of safetycritical systems. Within this approach, a safety case plays a key role in the system development life cycle. The key components in a safety case are safety arguments, which are designated to demonstrate that the system is acceptably safe. Inappropriate reasoning in safety arguments could undermine a system’s ...

The Dialectics of Case Comparison: a Formal Reconstruction

This paper is about the dialectics of case comparison as it unfolds in legal case-based reasoning, and its aim is to provide a representation of the phenomenon in formal terms. This is done by formalising argument moves in case comparison concisely in argument schemes, and specifying attack relations between the arguments and their corresponding counterarguments. A feature that is new in resear...

Computational Dialectics for Arguing Agents

In this paper, we extract its computational content from Hegelian Marxist dialectics and consider the utilization in agents’ world. This is a novel approach to conflict resolution, cooperation, reconciliation, negotiation and so on that are main concerns in agent-oriented computing. We first examine two approaches to static dialectical logics: the dialectical logics DL and DM by Routley and Mey...

Norms of Legitimate Dissensus

Argumentation theory needs to develop a tightly reasoned normative code of reasonableness in argumentation so that reasonableness is severed from the goal of reaching “consensus,” as in Habermas and others, or of “resolving the difference of opinion,” as in Pragma-dialectics. On one hand, given degenerative trends in present-day public debate, there is a need for argumentation scholars to enter...

Dialectics as Method and Approach in Educational Research