Silence at the meta-level: a story about argumentative cruelty
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Date
2022
Authors
Stevens, Katharina
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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Abstract
One way in which we may be able to legitimately determine the norms that will guide our arguments is by using meta-dialogues. Unfortunately, situations where meta-dialogues are actually needed are also often situations of power inequality so that arguers may feel that it is too risky to attempt initiating a meta-dialogue. I argue that argumentative smothering is a high risk here, and that we therefore cannot rely on meta-dialogues to solve the problems of determining argumentative norms.
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Accepted author manuscript
Keywords
Ethics of argumentation , Meta-dialogue , Argumentative smothering , Epistemic injustice , Adversarial argumentation , Arguments
Citation
Stevens, K. (2022). Silence at the meta-level: A story about argumentative cruelty. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 55(1), 76-82. https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.55.1.0076