Abstract
Are we living in an age of unreason? And what to do about it? Can we combat unreason? We discuss situations in which one may presume to be confronted with unreasonable behavior by an interlocutor: fallacies, changing rules of the game, shifting to some other type of dialogue, and abandonment of reasonable dialogue. We recommend ways that could be helpful to obtain a return to reason. These possibilities lead us to a moderately optimistic conclusion.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 226-244 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Argumentation in Context |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5-Jul-2021 |
Event | 3rd European Conference on Argumentation - Groningen, Netherlands Duration: 24-Jun-2019 → 27-Jun-2019 http://ecargument.org |
Keywords
- Abandonment of reasonable dialogue, Bullshit, Dialogue shift, Fake news, Fallacy, Game-change, Optimism