BACKGROUND Moral Case Deliberation is a specific form of bioethics education fostering professionals' moral competence in order to deal with their moral questions. So far, few studies focus in detail on Moral Case Deliberation methodologies and their didactic principles. The dilemma method is a structured and frequently used method in Moral Case Deliberation that stimulates methodological refle...

This commentary further explores how therapeutic relationships can create the potential for transformation. Morioka (2008) draws on the dialogical self theory to discuss the role of tension, dialogue, and through the concepts of utushi and ma, the possibility for new configurations of time and space in the dialogical self. A deep concern for the quality of the response of the other is apparent ...

The aim of the paper is to consider a game-theoretic properties of strategies available to players in dialogue games. We treat speech acts formulated in a dialogue as moves in a dialogue game and rules for their appropriateness as rules of this game. We would like to analyze dialogical systems as a Nash-style games, and explore verification possibilities for some properties of such games e.g. d...

This paper examines the relational view of the person in Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue. Shifts toward the relational are considered in the context of human development, gender studies, psychotherapy, and family therapy. A dialogical approach to couples therapy is presented, in which partners are encouraged to move toward a more collaborative, empathic relationship--a relationship of "I ...

We develop a model of abduction in abstract argumentation, where changes to an argumentation framework act as hypotheses to explain the support of an observation. We present dialogical proof theories for the main decision problems (i.e., finding hypotheses that explain skeptical/credulous support) and we show that our model can be instantiated on the basis of abductive logic programs.

Our approach to the study of learning of mathematical problem-solving extends the notion of narrative learning environments to include the dynamics of collaborative dialogs and related emergent narratives. This perspective favours the conception of the dialogical aspects of interaction as shared achievements of coparticipants and as central meaning-making procedures, based on our qualitative an...