All Outputs (2)

Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & Snaith, M. (2022). Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games. In F. Grasso, N. L. Green, J. Schneider, & S. Wells (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2022), Cardiff, Wales, Septemb

Prohibition of repeated statements has benefits for the tractability and predictability of dialogues carried out by machines, but doesn’t match the real world behaviour of people. This gap between human and machine behaviour leads to problems when fo... Read More about Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games.

Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues (2022)
Journal Article
Godden, D., & Wells, S. (2022). Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues. Informal Logic, 42(1), 291-342. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v42i1.7225

This paper considers the probative burdens of proposing action or policy options in deliberation dialogues. Do proposers bear a burden of proof? Building on pioneering work by Douglas Walton (2010), and following on a growing literature within comput... Read More about Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues.