This article defends the democratic ideal of inclusive public discourse, as articulated in Democratic Speech Divided Times, against critiques offered by Billingham, Fraser, and Hannon. Specifically, it considers responds to three core challenges. The first challenge argues, notably, that “shared reasons” constraint should either apply everywhere or not at all, that, if this is divided circumsta...

Moral decision procedures such as principlism or casuistry require intuition at certain junctures, as when a principle seems indeterminate, or principles conflict, or we wonder which paradigm case is most relevantly similar to the instant case. However, intuitions are widely thought to lack epistemic justification, and many ethicists urge that such decision procedures dispense with intuition in...

The interpretive framework for the study of learning introduced in this article and called commognitive is grounded in the assumption that thinking is a form of communication and that learning mathematics is tantamount to modifying and extending one’s discourse. These basic tenets lead to the conclusion that substantial discursive change, rather than being necessitated by an extradiscursive rea...

Mainstream psychology can often be criticized for turning the liberal concerns of psychologists into conservative practices focusing on the individual. In the United Kingdom, the discursive turn in social psychology has been marked by an audacious body of work critical of cognitive attempts to theorize the social. A particular psychodiscursive strand has emerged, which combines discourse analys...

Tile "mixed-initiative" system-design rationale is explored in the context of networked discourse, in particular in the context of a collaboration model, called DisNet. The frame-based system allows to make contextual relations explicit, but in typical group-projects users can not be expected to formalize the project-context so that it can be used by agents to participate in a collaboration on ...

Objectives: This research explored drug use from the perspectives of individuals who recreationally used one or more substances on a daily basis and had never attended addiction-related counselling or a mutual support group. The purpose of the research was to identify the ways that narrative accounts were discursively structured to enact, confirm, legitimate, reproduce, or challenge the concept...