ISBN:
9783030853686
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 472 p. 248 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
Series Statement:
Argumentation Library 41
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Keywords:
Philosophy—History.
Abstract:
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Argumentation Theories -- Part I: A P-Theoretical Analysis of the Debate, by Fernando Leal -- Chapter 2. Description of the Method Followed -- Chapter 3. Analysis of Segment I: Start of the Debate -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Segment II: Discussion of Copleston’s Metaphysical Argument -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Segment III: Discussion of Copleston’s Religious Argument -- Chapter 6. Analysis of Segment IV: Discussion of Copleston’s Moral Argument -- Chapter 7. Analysis of Segment V: Summing-Up of the Arguments -- Part II: An E-Theoretical Analysis of the Debate, by Hubert Marraud -- Chapter 8. Argument Dialectic -- Chapter 9. Argumentation Structures and Operations -- Chapter 10. Counterarguments -- Chapter 11. Co-oriented Reasons and Modifiers -- Chapter 12. Intertwined Structures -- Chapter 13. An Argument-Dialectical Analysis of the Russell-Copleston Debate -- Chapter 14. An Exercise in Adversarial Collaboration -- Appendix: Text of the Russell-Copleston Debate.
Abstract:
This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God. It includes an introduction justifying the choice of text and describing the historical and philosophical background of the debate. It also provides a transcript of the debate, based in part on the original recording. The argumentative analyses occupy Parts I and II of the book. In Part I the argumentative process is analysed by means of the ideal model of critical discussion, the workhorse of pragma-dialectics. Part I shows how the two parties go through the four stages of a critical discussion. It highlights the questions raised over and beyond the presiding question of whether God exists and examines almost a hundred questions that are raised. Many are left in the air, whereas a few others give rise to sundry sub-discussions or meta-dialogues. In Part II the theoretical framework of argument dialectic is put to work: argument structures are identified by means of punctuation marks, argumentative connectors and operators, allowing to see the argumentative exchange as the collaborative construction of a macro-argument. Such a macro-argument is both a joint product of the arguers and a complex structure representing the dialectical relationships between the individual arguments combined in it. Finally, the complementarity of the two approaches is addressed. Thus the book can be described as an exercise in adversarial collaboration.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-85368-6
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