Quaestio and L-perspectivation

Argument Mining and Social Debates

With this demonstration we introduce AFAlpha, a prototype of an Argument Mining tool, working in unison with Quaestio-it, an online social debating platform. While AFAlpha extracts arguments from text, as well as attack and support relations between arguments, Quaestio-it is concerned with visualising and evaluating interactive debates. We thus use Quaestio-it to represent and visualise output ...

From Argumentation Theory to Real Life Debating - Building Social Web Applications

With the World Wide Web firmly in place as the prime source of human knowledge, its contents and structures feature more and more prominently as sources for Argumentation research. Being no exception to this, we present a number of applications of Argumentation that build upon the online debating platform Quaestio-it. As a website, Quaestio-it provides an intuitive user interface through which ...

Quaestio disputata. Ordinary and extraordinary treatments: when does quality of life count?

Quaestio disputata: when does quality of life count? A response to Gilbert Meilaender.

[Editor's note: The author argued earlier that the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means is essential to quality-of-life considerations. Gilbert Meilaender responded that quality-of-life considerations are not appropriate for incapacitated patients or those relying on others. Wildes insists that these considerations are inescapable for any patient and are a constitutive element i...

Twisted Covariance and Weyl Quantisation

In this letter we wish to clarify in which sense the tensor nature of the commutation relations [xμ,xν ] = iθμν underlying Minkowski spacetime quantisation cannot be suppressed even in the twisted approach to Lorentz covariance. We then address the vexata quaestio: “why θ?”