Gorgias-B: Argumentation in Practice

Applications of Argumentation: The SoDA Methodology

The area of argumentation is now at a stage that it can benefit from the study of systematic methodologies for building applications of argumentation. Herein, we present such a systematic argumentation software methodology, called SoDA (Software Development for Argumentation), that facilitates the principled modeling of real life problems, and the Gorgias-B tool that supports it. Gorgias-B buil...

Gorgias-C: Extending Argumentation with Constraint Solving

GORGIAS-C is a system implementing a logic programming framework of argumentation that integrates together preference reasoning and constraint solving. The framework of argumentation with preference reasoning [1, 2] was first implemented in the GORGIAS system3 which has mainly been used in the multi-agent domain [2–4], medical informatics [5] and network security [6]. We have extended this fram...

From Natural Language to Argumentation and Cognitive Systems

This paper reports on a program for the development of cognitive systems based on user specifications expressed in Natural Language in the form of high-level guidelines for the desired behaviour of those systems. Language analysis from existing NLP tools is used to generate scenarios based on the users’ description of their preferences in the provision of the service by the system. These scenar...

Shame and Ambiguity in Plato’s Gorgias

The Doctor and the Pastry Chef : Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato

The Doctor and the Pastry Chef: Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias Penultimate draft – final version in Ancient Philosophy, 27, 2007 Jessica Moss The Gorgias’ ostensible subject is rhetoric, which it defines as a “producer of persuasion.” But the dialogue is also centrally concerned with another kind of persuasion: Socrates’ attempts to persuade his interlocutors to pursue the life of j...