In my view, making the case for a specific interpretation of Critical Theory is problematic.1 Although term has prestigious origin stemming from Horkheimer?s 1937 paper, Traditional and Theory,2 given during his as Director Institute Social Research at Frankfurt University generating enthusiasm its members, movement associated would be defined radically redefined not only by subsequent generati...

When the members of a group have to make a decision, they can use a voting rule to aggregate their preferences. But which rule to use is a difficult question. Different rules have different properties, and social choice theorists have found arguments for and against most of them. These arguments are aimed at the expert reader, used to mathematical formalism. We propose a logic-based language to...

Emotions are commonly thought to be beyond rational analysis. In this paper, we develop the position that emotions can be the objects of argumentation and used as terms in emotional argumentation schemes. Thus, we can argue about whether or not, according to normative standards and available evidence, it is plausible that an individual had a particular emotion. This is particularly salient in l...

Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) is an effective means of resolving conflicts in a multi-agent society. However, it consumes both time and computational resources for agents to generate, select and evaluate arguments. Furthermore, in many cases, argumentation is not the only means of resolving conflicts. Thus, some could be avoided either by finding an alternative means (evading the confli...

Stories can be powerful argumentative vehicles, and they are often used in arguments from analogy, most notably as parables or allegories where the story illustrates an important claim of the argument. Case Based Reasoning in Law has many similar features. In this article, we want to take a further step at computationally modelling the connection between stories and argumentation in analogical ...