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(University of Lethbridge, Canada)
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This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons.



This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons.

Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part of argumentation theory. This is at least in part due to a methodological commitment not to address internal states of the arguers, such as intentions and beliefs, which makes moral theorizing about argumentation difficult. This book presents three arguments for why ethics ought to be a central element in normative theorizing about argumentation. First, it shows that ethics is needed for providing normative argumentation theory with its foundation and for offering arguers reliable guidance for decision-making both about which norms ought to govern their arguing and how they should shape each argument they make. Second, it addresses some of the most persistent problems faced by currently dominant normative approaches to argumentation, most notably that they are only reliable under the assumption that unrealistic background conditions are fulfilled. Finally, it provides the groundwork for a systematic ethics of argumentation. It does so by showing how a function of argumentation can be justified via moral reasons and by providing the outlines for both an applied ethics of (meta-level) normative argument design and an applied role-ethics of object-level arguing.

The Ethics of Argumentation is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines—including philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and rhetoric—who are interested in argumentation, critical thinking and social epistemology.

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This book is a compelling case that there is a deep connection between argumentation and ethics. In particular, we need to reflect on how and why we argue with each other. This requires that we think through not only the issues on which we disagree but the roles we take when we work it all out. Stevenss insights here are invaluable, and they reflect the profound stakes for how we reason together.

Scott Aikin, Vanderbilt University, USA

"The Ethics of Argumentation makes a closing argument against single, ideal argumentation theories. It synthesizes scholarship in philosophy and communication to clear ground that has been broken here and there in explaining the impossibility, impracticality, and immorality of a single ideal. It urges attention to context in a way that guards against easy dismissals as relativism, and will be an intellectual force for argumentation scholars to reckon with."

Beth Innocenti, University of Kansas, USA

Introduction
1. Function Claims as the Foundation for Normative
Argumentation Theory
2. A Moral Foundation for Normative Argumentation Theory
3. Single-Set Theories of Argumentation and the Ideal Theory Problem
4. A
Multi-Set Normative Theory of Argumentation With an Applied Ethics of
Normative Argument Design
5. The Impossible Procedure of the Opening Stage
6.
An Applied Role-Ethics for Object-Level Arguing Conclusion: One Last Argument
Regarding Critical Thinking Education
Katharina Stevens is a philosopher and argumentation theorist working at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is one of the editors of the journal Informal Logic and one of the directors of the Critical Thinking and Citizen Engagement Lab at the University of Lethbridge.