How philosophers argue : an adversarial collaboration on the Russell-Copleston debate / Fernando Leal, Hubert Marraud.
Leal, Fernando Antonio, 1940-; Marraud, Hubert.
2022
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Title
How philosophers argue : an adversarial collaboration on the Russell-Copleston debate / Fernando Leal, Hubert Marraud.
Author
Leal, Fernando Antonio, 1940-
ISBN
9783030853686 (electronic bk.)
3030853683 (electronic bk.)
3030853675
9783030853679
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85368-6
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (473 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-85368-6 doi
Call Number
BC108
Dewey Decimal Classification
160
Summary
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.
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Marraud, Hubert.
Series
Argumentation library ; v. 41.
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How Philosophers Argue.
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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 Coplestons Metaphysical Argument
Chapter 5. Analysis of Segment III: Discussion of Coplestons Religious Argument
Chapter 6. Analysis of Segment IV: Discussion of Coplestons 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.

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