Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and Participation
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- Zenker, Frank ORCID Nankai University
- van Laar, Jan Albert ORCID University of Groningen
- Cepollaro, Bianca ORCID University Vita-Salute San Raffaele
- Gâţă, Anca ORCID Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
- Hinton, Martin ORCID Lodz University
- King, Colin Guthrie ORCID Providence College & Universität Basel
- Larson, Brian ORCID Texas A&M University school of law
- Lewiński, Marcin ORCID Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Lumer, Christoph ORCID University of Siena
- Oswald, Steve ORCID University of Fribourg,
- Pichlak, Maciej ORCID University of Wrocław
- Scott, Blake ORCID KU Leuven
- Urbański, Mariusz ORCID Adam Mickiewicz University
- Wagemans, Jean ORCID University of Amsterdam
- 2023
Published in:
- Argumentation. - 2023, vol. 38, no. 1, p. 7-40
Argumentation
Deliberation
Dialectics
Disagreement
Epistemology
Legal context
Norm
Political context
Public policy
Public sphere
Logic
Linguistics
Rhetoric
English
Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an argumentation-theoretic perspective, we survey the norms that should govern public argumentation and address some of the complexities that scholarly treatments have identified. Our focus is on norms associated with the ideals of correctness and participation as sources of a politically legitimate deliberative outcome. In principle, both ideals are mutually coherent. If the information needed for a correct deliberative outcome is distributed among agents, then maximising participation increases information diversity. But both ideals can also be in tension. If participants lack competence or are prone to biases, a correct deliberative outcome requires limiting participation. The central question for public argumentation, therefore, is how to strike a balance between both ideals. Rather than advocating a preferred normative framework, our main purpose is to illustrate the complexity of this theme.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'anglais
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Language, linguistics
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1007/s10503-023-09598-6
- ISSN 0920-427X
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330796
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