Autore: Paglieri, Fabio
Titolo: Argomentazione, decisione e razionalità
Periodico: Sistemi intelligenti
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 415 - Pagina finale: 432

This paper opposes the view that studying argumentation from a decision theoreticperspective is a purely descriptive project. On the contrary, I argue that suchapproach is naturally suited to tackle normative issues, shedding new light onhow strategic rationality interacts with other virtues of argumentation - namely,inferential validity and dialectical appropriateness. Recent studies propose toanalyze argumentation by focusing on arguers' decision making. An argumentis the product of a sequence of decisions, made by two or more parties in dialogicalinteraction: thus its structure and outcome will depend on the decisionprocesses and strategic skills of the arguers. In spite of some promising results,this approach still remains relatively underdeveloped in argumentation theories.Reviewing the relevant literature, I contend that argumentative decisions havebeen marginalized mostly because they are assumed to pertain a descriptivelevel of analysis, whereas argumentation theories typically focus on normativeissues. Inasmuch as argumentative decisions concern what arguers do, as opposedto what they ought to do, this topic is of little consequence for argumentationtheories. However, the premise of this reasoning is false: it is not the case thatfocusing on argumentative decisions leads to abandon normative concerns. Quitethe opposite: by looking at arguments as the product of decisions, many competingmodels of rational choice become potentially relevant for argumentation.The key point is that strategic rationality, however modeled, is not the type ofrationality typically considered in assessing arguments, where it is customaryinstead to look for inferential validity and/or dialectical appropriateness. Yet,arguers care also (and possibly mostly) for strategic considerations. Reconcilingthese different forms of rationality is a task that argumentation theories shouldembrace, rather than avoid.




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