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Author(s): Douglas Walton
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Year: 2007
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ISBN 10:  9027218854

ISBN 13:  978-9027218858

Author: Douglas Walton

Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to other agents. Such agents also reason with each other when they engage in negotiation and persuasion. It is shown in this book that critical argumentation is best represented in this framework by the model of reasoned argument called a dialog, in which two or more parties engage in a polite and orderly exchange with each other according to rules governed by conversation policies. In such dialog argumentation, the two parties reason together by taking turns asking questions, offering replies, and offering reasons to support a claim. They try to settle their disagreements by an orderly conversational exchange that is partly adversarial and partly collaborative.

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER 1: The Rebirth of Dialog Theory

  1. The rebirth of dialog theory

  2. Dialog theory in computing

  3. Agent communication

  4. Fundamental concepts of dialog theory

  5. The critical discussion as a type of dialog

  6. Plan recognition and deliberation

  7. The BDI model and the commitment model

  8. The problem of retraction

  9. Communication and information

  10. The future and past of dialog theory

CHAPTER 2: The History of Dialectic
11. The history of dialectic
12. Origins of dialectic in ancient philosophy
13. The dialectic of Socrates and Plato
14. Aristotelian dialectic
15. Aristotle’s classification of types of dialog
16. Medieval dialectic
17. Dialectic in modern philosophy
18. The reappearance of dialectic
19. Eight characteristics of dialectic
20. Hamblin’s dialog rules
21. Functions of questioning and asserting
22. The future of dialectic as a subject

CHAPTER 3: Persuasion Dialog
23. Persuasion dialog
24. Persuasion in rhetoric and dialectic
25. Characteristics of persuasion dialog
26. Defeasibility and acceptance
27. Evidence testing and burden of proof
28. Dialog’s truth and relativism
29. The charge of pernicious relativism
30. Judging the maieutic depth of a persuasion dialog
31. Aiming at the truth
32. Truth, evidence, and acceptance
33. Conclusions

CHAPTER 4: Agent Communication Systems
34. Agent communication systems
35. Speech acts
36. Interrogative messages in ACLs
37. Conversation policies
38. Sincerity conditions
39. Understanding of messages
40. Rational effects of a message
41. Future multiagent systems and dialog theory
42. Implicit commitment and Gricean implicature
43. Adding speech acts and agents to formal dialectic
44. What characteristics of an agent are needed?
45. Expectations and plausible inference
46. Plans, strategies, and chaining forward
47. Strategies in formal dialectic
48. Qualities of character for agents in formal dialectic

CHAPTER 5: The Case of the Critical Discussion on Euthanasia
49. The case of the critical discussion on euthanasia
50. Fallacy and deception
51. Current systems of formal dialectic

CHAPTER 6: Dialectical Shifts and Embeddings
52. Dialectical shifts and embeddings
53. Dialectical shifts and fallacies
54. The problem of shifts and embeddings
55. Cases of shifts based on embeddings
56. Cases of shifts not based on embeddings
57. Argumentation schemes
58. Analysis of the cases based on embeddings
59. Analysis of the cases not based on embeddings
60. Fitting dialogs together at global and local levels
61. Metadialogs
62. Solving the embedding problem

CHAPTER 7: Explanation, Clarification, and Interpretation
63. Explanation, clarification, and interpretation
64. The three stages of critical assessment
65. Plan recognition and incomplete arguments
66. New tools for argument diagramming
67. The problem of enthymemes
68. Three bases for the enthymeme
69. Textual interpretation as an abductive process
70. Textual interpretation as simulative
71. Anticipating an arguer’s future moves
72. The problem of diffuse dialog

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