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 ...

We identify and illustrate five important kinds of Dialectical Examples, standard configurations of cases which enable an arguer to justify rhetorical assertions effectively by example. Our computer program generates Argument Contexts, collections of cases that instantiate Dialectical Examples from an on-line database of cases according to a user’s general specifications. The Argument Context g...

Music provides a challenging system for the analysis of cultural evolution. The dialectical approach to music seeks to identify the internal stylistic tensions and contradictions (in terms of thesis and antithesis) which give rise to new musical forms (synthesis). The Darwinian alternative to dialectics, which in its most reductionist form is becoming known as memetics, seeks to interpret the e...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder characterized by severe disturbances in emotion regulation. In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), affect dysregulation is seen as a consequence of a transaction between a biological predisposition to emotion vulnerability and invalidating environmental experiences. In the past few years, a growing body of research has accumulated demonstratin...

emotional dysregulation interpersonal dysregulation behavioural dysregulation cognitive dysregulation self dysregulation An ability to draw on knowledge of the biopsychosocial model that underpins DBT (which assumes that a biological vulnerability in the client transacts with an invalidating environment, and that through successive transactions the client’s dysfunctional behaviours emerge as an...

ion is an important construct for mathematics educators. Empiricist accounts of abstraction, which associate abstractions with generalisations stemming from the recognition of common features amongst a set of particular instances, dominated Western mathematics education literature in the last century but have been challenged in recent years by ideas inspired by the dialectical materialist and s...

Resilience is commonly portrayed as a positive capability that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to thrive in dynamic contexts.This paper questions this oversimplified view based on a dialectical analysis of a telehealth innovation within a network of collaborating hospitals. We analyze the major contradictions that characterize the adoption of the innovation. First, we analyze cont...

The authors report on a project in which a new experiential form of professional learning combined ethical thinking processes with a collaborative meeting technology known as the Zing team learning system (ZTLS). A new software program called Working Wisely was built by the completion of the project. The ZTLS in combination with Working Wisely facilitates communities of practice (Fleer, Edwards...

Dialectical Frameworks for Legal Reasoning Latifa AL-ABDULKARIM, Katie ATKINSON, Trevor BENCH-CAPON Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, UK Abstract. In recent years a powerful generalisation of Dung’s abstract argumentation frameworks, Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (ADF), has been developed. ADFs generalise the abstract argumentation frameworks introduced by Dung by r...

Defeasible reasoning is concerned with the logics of non-deductive argument. As is described in the literature, the study of this type of reasoning is considerably more involved than the study of deductive argument, even so that, in realistic applications, there is often a lack of resources to perform an exhaustive analysis. It follows that, in a theory of defeasible reasoning, the order and di...