TY - CHAP
T1 - What Does an Argument Culture Look Like?
AU - Zarefsky, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - However the term “culture” is defined, a culture becomes an argument culture when it is characterized by consciousness of audience, comfort with uncertainty, expectation of personal convictions, commitment to justification rather than formal proof, realization that the enterprise is essentially cooperative, and willingness to assume risks. Such a culture productively negotiates tensions between contingency and commitment, partisanship and restraint, personal conviction and sensitivity to audience, reasonableness and subjectivity, decision and nonclosure. This essay originally was presented as a keynote address at the 8th conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, at the University of Windsor in 2009, and subsequently was published in Informal Logic, 29, 299–310. The theme of the conference was “argument cultures” and the essay responds to that theme.
AB - However the term “culture” is defined, a culture becomes an argument culture when it is characterized by consciousness of audience, comfort with uncertainty, expectation of personal convictions, commitment to justification rather than formal proof, realization that the enterprise is essentially cooperative, and willingness to assume risks. Such a culture productively negotiates tensions between contingency and commitment, partisanship and restraint, personal conviction and sensitivity to audience, reasonableness and subjectivity, decision and nonclosure. This essay originally was presented as a keynote address at the 8th conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, at the University of Windsor in 2009, and subsequently was published in Informal Logic, 29, 299–310. The theme of the conference was “argument cultures” and the essay responds to that theme.
KW - Argument culture
KW - Audience
KW - Cooperative argumentation
KW - Justification
KW - Uncertainty
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85094973278
T3 - Argumentation Library
SP - 37
EP - 47
BT - Argumentation Library
PB - Springer Nature
ER -