Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth- and consensu...

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Main Author: Betz, Gregor. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 357
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4599-5
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505 0 |a 1. General Introduction -- 2. Theory of Dialectical Structures -- Part I: Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation -- 3. Introduction to Part I.- 4. Random Debates -- 5. Background Knowledge -- 6. Four Argumentation Strategies -- 7. Argumentation Strategies in Many-proponent Debates -- 8. Core Updating -- 9. Core Argumentation -- Part II: How Do We Know? On the Truth-conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation -- 10. Introduction to Part II -- 11. Random Debates -- 12. Background Knowledge -- 13. Four Argumentation Strategies -- 14. Argumentation Strategies in Many-proponent Debates -- 15. Core Updating -- 16. Core Argumentation -- Symbols -- References -- Index. 
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