This paper analyses the historical account of the Battle of Britain given in Checkland and Holwell [1], contrasting it with a more adequate history, given the explanatory goals which they have set for themselves. Subsequently, concepts from dialectics are applied to show how and why the differences between the two accounts reflect different methods of conceptualisation, focussing on the nature ...

OBJECTIVE To influence health behavior, communication has to be relevant on an individual level and, thus, fulfill the requirement of premissary relevance. This paper attempts to enrich the design of automated health advisors by, first, reviewing main solutions to the challenge of premissary relevance found in the literature and, second, highlighting the value in this field of the theory of arg...

This paper reports research concerning issues involved in adopting a computational dialectics approach to develop a human-computer debating system for educational debate. In particular, we propose a suitable dialogue model and a set of computationally usable strategic heuristics to enable the computer to engage its users in debate on a controversial issue. The system has been fully implemented....

Prompted by the work of Hermans, we attempt to construct the dialogical self informed by Eastern traditions. To describe dialogical phenomenology we turn to three resources: (a) ~"\ Chinese intellectual traditions, (b) dreams and (c) daily life. J Dialogical attributes are described: the dialogical self is capable of -^ polyvocality but also of achieving unity with diversity; metacognition is v...

Pragma-dialectics is dynamic, context-sensitive, and multi-agent; it promises theories of fallacy and argumentative structure. But pragma-dialectic theory and practice are not yet fully in harmony. Key definitions of the theory fall short of explicating the analyses that pragma-dialecticians actually do. Many discussions involve more than two participants with different and mutually incompatibl...

Preface MARXISM has a twofold bearing on science. In the first place Marxists study science among other human activities. They show how the scientific activities of any society depend on its changing needs, and so in the long run on its productive methods, and how science changes the productive methods, and therefore the whole society. This analysis is needed for any scientific approach to hist...

This response to Asger S?rensen?s paper From Ontology Epistemology: Tong, Mao and Hegel is made on the basis of a reflection author?s intellectual development with special reference idea ?dialectics?. mainly composed three periods, in which author formed his strong antipathy toward dialectics as mere tool power (in 1970s), learnt understand importance ?dialogical logic? providing conceptual too...