Philosophical Argumentation Strategies and the Erotetic Presupposition. A Dialectical Approach
Abstract
The paper presents a dialogical approach applied to the analysis of argumentative strategies in philosophy and examines the case of the strategy of searching for erotetic presuppositions and auxiliary questions. It has four parts: in the first, the need for a new approach to analyze philosophical argumentation is defended; in the second, a dialogical approach applied to argumentative strategies (DAAS) is presented, which makes use of concepts and tools from the dialectical dialogical approach (Walton & Krabbe 1995), Hubert Marraud's Argument dialectic (2013) and the vast tradition of formal dialectics and dialogical logics; in the third, a dialectical version of the strategy of seeking presuppositions and auxiliary questions is proposed. Finally, in the fourth, an example of searching for presuppositions and auxiliary questions in a text by Jay F. Rosenberg (1998) is analyzed in a dialogical version that registers all dialectical moves.References
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