Angelic devil’s advocates and the forms of adversariality

dc.contributor.author	Stevens, Katharina
dc.contributor.author	Cohen, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned	2025-10-23T20:31:05Z
dc.date.available	2025-10-23T20:31:05Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description	Accepted author manuscript
dc.description.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.
dc.description.peer-review	Yes
dc.identifier.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
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10133/7198
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.publisher.department	Department of Philosophy
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts and Science
dc.publisher.institution	University of Lethbirdge
dc.publisher.institution	Colby College
dc.publisher.url	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-020-09726-x
dc.subject	Argument-as-war
dc.subject	Adversarial argument
dc.subject	Cooperative argument
dc.subject	Devil's advocate
dc.subject	Argumentation
dc.title	Angelic devil’s advocates and the forms of adversariality
dc.type	Article