Functionalism, Normativity and the Concept of Argumentation

Informal Logic 31 (1):1-26 (2011)
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Abstract

In her 2007 paper, “Argument Has No Function” Jean Goodwin takes exception with what she calls the “explicit function claims”, arguing that not only are function-based accounts of argumentation insufficiently motivated, but they fail to ground claims to normativity. In this paper I stake out the beginnings of a functionalist answer to Goodwin

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Steven W. Patterson
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