Course Description In this course, we will explore the question of the actual and potential connections between democracy and education. Our focus of attention will be placed on a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers. We will survey and deal critically with a range of competing conceptions of democracy, variously described as classical, republican, liberal, radical, marxist, neomarxist, pragmatist, feminist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, and/or participatory. Using narrative inquiry as a means for illuminating and interpreting contemporary practice, we will analyze the implications of different conceptions of democracy for the practical work of civic education.

Democracy and education.

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Introduction to Multiagent Systems

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The concept of mind

Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding "Law's Empire" in all of its cultural, political, and economic dimensions. The questions arising from these intersections, and addressing imperialisms past and present forms the subject matter of a special symposium issue of Social Identities under the editorship of Griffith University's Rob McQueen, and UBC's Wes Pue and with contributions from McQueen, Ian Duncanson, Renisa Mawani, David Williams, Emma Cunliffe, Chidi Oguamanam, W. Wesley Pue, Fatou Camara, and Dianne Kirkby. This paper introduces the volume, forthcoming in late 2007. The central problematique of this issue has previously been explored through the 2005 Law's Empire conference, an informal but vibrant postcolonial legal studies network.

Law's Empire

Part 1 The argumentative turn: policy institutions and practices: Policy discourse and the politics of Washington think tanks, Frank Fischer Discourse coalitions and the institutionalization of practice - the case of acid rain in Great Britain, Maarten Hajer Political judgement and the policy cycle - the case of ethnicity arguments in the Netherlands, Robert Hoppe Counsel and consensus - norms of argumentation in health policy, Bruce Jennings. Part 2 Analytical concepts - frames, tropes, and narratives: Survey research as rhetorical trope - electric power planning arguments in Chicago, J.A. Throgmorton Frame reflective policy discourse, Martin Rein and Donald Schon Reading policy narratives - beginning, middle, and end, Thomas J. Kaplan Learning from practice stories - the priority of practical judgement, John Forester. Part 3 Theoretical perspectives: Policy anlysis and planning - from science to argumentation, John Dryzek Planning through debate - the communicative turn in planning theory, Patsy Healey Policy reforms as arguments, William Dunn Two worlds of policy discourse - consensual versus adversarial proposal selection, Duncan MacRae.

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The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Historical Backgrounds. Analytic, Dialectic and Rhetoric. Analysis of Fallacies, Controversy, and Discussion. Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric. Toulmin's Model of Argumentation. Part II: Contemporary Developments. Informal Logic and Critical Thinking. Communication and Rhetoric. Fallacies and Formal Logic. Dialogue Logic and Formal Dialectics. Pragma-Dialectics and Critical Discussion. Language-Oriented Approaches to Argumentation. Other Significant Developments.

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory : A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

Fundamentals of argumentation theory

ions such as "culture" and "society" (Chapter 1). People are multivalent; society is balkanized into discourse domains. The relationship between individuals and social worlds cannot therefore be a simple, universal one. Atomism is a worse metaphor now than in Hobbes's day. Our world of "quantum weirdness" (Pagels, 1982), increasing entropy in closed systems, and invisible but real probability waves does not translate easily to the realm of action. To take but one example, one might say that the state of public opinion (a consensus) is a statistical drift, but we do not assess a disciplinary consensus by sampling techniques. Human groups and organizations are not closed systems. People are not analogous to atoms: their motives in particular situations may not be relevant to whatever random samples of their communities might reveal. If the ebb and flow of opinion in a system is not random, then individual choices are more than expressions of probability waves. Action, Burke insists, is different from motion. And preferable. Taken seriously by organizational actors, atomism is a debilitating idea. It implies that organizations are indivisible wholes closed to critique and reconstruction; it overlooks situational adaptation and (thus) organizational evolution. As we shall see, freedom is a feature of one's thinking that cannot coexist with atomism. So dichotomizing the individual and society is a mistake, not only because it yields needless disputes but because it is empirically wrong. Maybe argument is not such a hard case after all. Rid of their shady companions and free of their old neighborhood, rationality and freedom clean up nicely. Perhaps we can discuss both constructs as if they are (1) ideas, not facts of nature; (2) cogent enough not to need mythical states to instantiate them; and (3) sufficiently flexible (and broad) to serve a more complex theoretical agenda.

A theory of argumentation

"As a distinctive philosophy, religious humanism emphasizes man's place in an unfathomed universe, reason as an instrument for discovering the truth, free inquiry as a condition for discerning meaning and purpose, and happiness as a fundamental value."Man's uniqueness emerges partly from homo sapiens' capacity to employ symbols effectively. For this reason, Willard's provocative book is not a celebration of controversy but a sophisticated study exploring the grounds of man's knowledge. Drawing upon phenomenologists such as Alfred Schultz, psychologists such as George Kelley, and argumentation philosophers such as Stephen Toulmin, Willard makes a genuine contribution to intellectual inquiry by extending essential consideration about human knowledge. The [author] demonstrates how 'secular sources' provide a fundamental resource in developing religious understanding from argumentative interactions."Highly insightful and intellectually refreshing . . . "Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge" provides thought-provoking reading for humanists concerned with rational inquiry, communication theory, religious philosophy, and liberal education.""--Religious Humanism"

Argumentation and the social grounds of knowledge

Preface. 1. Reasons R.C. Pinto. 2. The pragmatic dimension of premise acceptability J.B. Freeman. 3. Rationality and judgment H. Siegel. 4. The dialectical tier revisited R.H. Johnson. 5. The rabbit in the hat: the internal relations of the pragma-dialectical rules H.V. Hansen. 6. Toumlin's warrants D. Hitchcock. 7. Metadialogues E.C.W. Krabbe. 8. Relationships among logic, dialectic and rhetoric J.A. Blair. 9. Logical fallacies, dialectical transgressions, rhetorical sins and other failures of rationality in argumentation D.H. Cohen. 10. A pragmatic view of the burden of proof F.H. van Eemeren, P. Houtlosser. 11. The ordinary practice of presuming and presumption with special attention to veracity and the burden of proof F.J. Kauffeld. 12. Two conceptions of openness in argumentation theory S. Jacobs. 13. Multidimensionality and non-deductiveness in deliberate argumentation C. Kock. 14. Argumentation studies in France: a new legitimacy C. Plantin. 15. Discourse correspondence between argumentative and grammatical sequences S. Stati. 16. Diagramming, argumentation schemes and critical questions D. Walton, C. Reed. 17. Legal argumentation theory and the concept of law S. Bertea. 18. Arguer's obligations: another perspective J.W. Wenzel. 19. Charles S. Pierce's theory of abduction and the Aristotelian enthymeme from signs M. Kraus. 20. Rhetoric and dialectic in Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' M. Leff. 21. On the argumentative quality of explanatory narratives T. Kvernbekk. 22. The wiles of argument: protodeliberation and heroic prudence in Homer's 'Odyssey' G.T. Goodnight. 23. Felicity conditions for the circumstantial ad hominem: the case of 'Bush v. Gore' D. Zarefsky. 24. The potential conflict between normatively-good argumentative practice and persuasive success: evidence from persuasion effects research D.J. O'Keefe. 25. The concept of argument quality in the elaboraton likelihood model: a normative and empirical approach to Petty and Cacioppo's 'strong' and 'weak' arguments R. van Enschot-van Dijk, L. Hustinx, H. Hoeken. 26. How narrative argumentation works: an analysis of argumentation aimed at reconsidering goals L. Langsdorf. List of contributors.

C.A. Willard

Papers

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory : A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

Fundamentals of argumentation theory

A theory of argumentation

Argumentation and the social grounds of knowledge

Anyone Who Has a View: Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Argumentation