Dialectics and Logic Version 4

Computational Dialectics for Arguing Agents

In this paper, we extract its computational content from Hegelian Marxist dialectics and consider the utilization in agents’ world. This is a novel approach to conflict resolution, cooperation, reconciliation, negotiation and so on that are main concerns in agent-oriented computing. We first examine two approaches to static dialectical logics: the dialectical logics DL and DM by Routley and Mey...

Educational Human-computer Debate: a Computational Dialectics Approach

Theories of learning suggest that dialogue is important in shaping conceptual development. However, there is widespread debate as to the forms of dialogue and which are effective in an educational context. In addressing these issues, we have analysed current knowledge concerning dialectics in philosophy and education. We propose to adopt a computational dialectical approach to study the issues ...

Dialectics as Method and Approach in Educational Research

Defeasible Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach Towards Defeasible Argumentation

Defeasible argumentation is concerned with studying plausible but, at the same time, fallible patterns of reasoning. Because plausible arguments can easily be developed, and not all of them can be in force at the same time, the main thrust of the theory is in deriving sound principles for adjudicating among conflicting lines of argumentation. In this paper, we propose to resolve such conflicts ...

Dialectics in Knowledge Organization: An Approach

This is a study of dialectics in its own right. Originally, it was a pedagogical means of teaching people to think, reason and engage in dialogue. Later on it became a part of logic and at present it is applied to any human activity, whether intellectual or social, to put forward and contrast arguments which clarify the situations in question. Mention is made to the processes of thesis, antithe...