For deliberative disagreement: Its venues, varieties and values

TY - JOUR

T1 - For deliberative disagreement

T2 - Its venues, varieties and values

AU - Kock, Christian Erik J

PY - 2018/12

Y1 - 2018/12

N2 - I outline a theory of deliberative debate, its distinctive features and the kind of normative criteria that may be posited for it in light of its distinctive features. Deliberative debate is a type of practical reasoning: ultimately it is not about what is true, but about what to do. From this follows several characteristics, primarily that there will normally be good reasons on both sides of an issue. I criticize prevalent conceptions of argumentation and outline an alternative, discussing contexts and varieties of deliberation and proposing normative criteria based on a citizen-centered view of the function of deliberation.

AB - I outline a theory of deliberative debate, its distinctive features and the kind of normative criteria that may be posited for it in light of its distinctive features. Deliberative debate is a type of practical reasoning: ultimately it is not about what is true, but about what to do. From this follows several characteristics, primarily that there will normally be good reasons on both sides of an issue. I criticize prevalent conceptions of argumentation and outline an alternative, discussing contexts and varieties of deliberation and proposing normative criteria based on a citizen-centered view of the function of deliberation.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - practical reasoning

KW - deliberation

KW - rhetoric

KW - disagreement

KW - consensus

KW - multidimensionality

U2 - 10.30460/91903

DO - 10.30460/91903

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1120-3404

VL - 36

SP - 477

EP - 498

JO - Paradigmi

JF - Paradigmi

IS - 3

ER -