Be Reasonable! Ways to React to Cases of Presumed Unreason

Erik C. W. Krabbe; Jan Albert van Laar

Be Reasonable! Ways to React to Cases of Presumed Unreason

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic

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
Title of host publication	Reason to Dissent
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation
Editors	Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Henrike Jansen, Jan Albert van Laar, Bart Verheij
Publisher	College Publications
Pages	49-62
Number of pages	14
Volume	3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-84890-333-3
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	The 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA): Reason to Dissent - University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Duration: 24-Jun-2019 → 27-Jun-2019

Publication series

Name	Studies in Logic: Logic and Argumentation
Publisher	College Publications
Volume	87

Conference

Conference	The 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA)
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Groningen
Period	24/06/2019 → 27/06/2019

Keywords

Abandonment of reasonable dialogue, Bullshit, Dialogue shift, Fake news, Fallacy, Game-change, Optimism

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Krabbe, ECW & van Laar, JA 2020, Be Reasonable! Ways to React to Cases of Presumed Unreason. in C Dutilh Novaes, H Jansen, JA van Laar & B Verheij (eds), Reason to Dissent: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation. vol. 3, Studies in Logic: Logic and Argumentation, vol. 87, College Publications, pp. 49-62, The 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA), Groningen, Netherlands, 24/06/2019.

Be Reasonable! Ways to React to Cases of Presumed Unreason. / Krabbe, Erik C. W.; van Laar, Jan Albert.

Reason to Dissent: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation. ed. / Catarina Dutilh Novaes; Henrike Jansen; Jan Albert van Laar; Bart Verheij. Vol. 3 College Publications, 2020. p. 49-62 (Studies in Logic: Logic and Argumentation; Vol. 87).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic

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