CONNECTING NATIONAL SAFETY NETS: THE DIALECTICS OF THE BASEL II CONTRACTING PROCESS Edward J. Kane Boston College Dialectics is the art or practice of trying to reconcile contradictory ideas. Contracting is a sequential process that employs the dialectics of multiparty give and take to fashion a deal that -to a mutually acceptable degree -can accommodate the contradictory interests of the dealm...

attend. Gilad Zlotkin (Hebrew University), Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware), Gerhard Brewka (University of Vienna, Austria), Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Gardner, L. Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University), and Kevin Ashley (Pitt) also contributed their intellectual weight to the proceedings. At issue were the following ideas: (1) dialectic has something to do wit...

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 ...

We propose in this paper DIAL, a framework for inter-agents dialogue, which formalize a deliberative process. This framework bounds a dialectics system in which argumentative agents arbitrate and play to reach an agreement. For this purpose, we propose an argumentation-based reasoning to manage the conflicts between arguments having different strengths for different agents. Moreover, we propose...

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 ...