Arguing as a Virtuous Arguer Would Argue

A Mental Model for a Rhetorical Arguer

This paper proposes a general mental model for an agent capable to engage in rhetorical argumentation. The model is grounded in works in the philosophy of mind, and is inspired by research in contextual reasoning. The issues that are dealt with in this paper are mainly ontological, as we leave aside the problem of knowledge representation and reasoning, and concentrate on the conceptualisation ...

Would You Argue with Albert Einstein about how to use Viscosity in the DLS Formula?

Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: a Reply to

This essay takes issue with Alasdair MacIntyre’s denial that teaching is a practice. It does so less by appeal to MacIntyre’s concept of practice than by criticism of his conception of teaching. It argues that this conception, as reconstructed from adversions to teaching in a range of his writings, does less than justice to what good teachers accomplish; and that, if this inadequacy is rectifie...

Would a rose not smell as sweet?

Background: Non-islet cell tumor induced hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a very rare phenomenon, but even more so in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. It tends to present in large or metastatic tumors, and can appear at any time in the progression of the disease. We present herein a case of NICTH in a GIST tumor and report an exon 9 mutation associated to it. Case presentation: A thirty nine year-old ma...

Civilised arguing.

ink or electronic) should not argue as antagonists, or even as advocates, as this can sour the atmosphere and lead to mere adversarial point scoring. ‘In quarrelling the truth is always lost’1. It is better to argue more as judges do, aiming to be fair, slowly edging towards as much agreement as possible, rather than each fighting his or her own corner. Trust each other’s sincerity. There is no...