Be Reasonable!: How to Be an Optimist in the 'Age of Unreason'

Erik C. W. Krabbe; Jan Albert van Laar

doi:10.1075/jaic.19021.kra

Be Reasonable! How to Be an Optimist in the 'Age of Unreason'

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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
Pages (from-to)	226-244
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Argumentation in Context
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.19021.kra
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

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10.1075/jaic.19021.kra

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