Angelic devil’s advocates and the forms of adversariality
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Date
2021
Authors
Stevens, Katharina
Cohen, Daniel
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Publisher
Springer
Abstract
Is argumentation essentially adversarial? The concept of a devil's advocate—a cooperative arguer who assumes the role of an opponent for the sake of the argument—serves as a lens to bring into clearer focus the ways that adversarial arguers can be virtuous and adversariality itself can contribute to argumentation's goals. It also shows the different ways arguments can be adversarial and the different ways that argumentation can be said to be "essentially" adversarial.
Description
Accepted author manuscript
Keywords
Argument-as-war , Adversarial argument , Cooperative argument , Devil's advocate , Argumentation
Citation
Stevens, K., & Cohen, D. (2021). Angelic devil’s advocates and the forms of adversariality. Topoi, 40, 899-912. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-020-09726-x