An appropriately timed interview in The Reasoner! http://www.thereasoner.org/
Another thing I like about approaching argumentation this way is that it forces
us to confront another question, viz., why do we argue? I mean that to be a
teleological why with normative force—i.e., what should we want to get out of
arguing?— not the why in search of a causal explanation. Epistemological and
other cognitive considerations have to be prominent parts of an account of
argumentation. Again, virtues approaches to argumentation embed arguing in a
larger context: our cognitive lives.
On 10/28/2015 04:05 PM, glen wrote:
On 10/28/2015 02:24 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
[NST==>Ok, you are forcing me to own up to my basic question. Why do people who
disagree with one another bother to talk? What is the good in that? I assume it’s
because we are striving for the non-zero-sum gains of concerted action. Also, there
is some evidence, I gather, that involving more than one person in a decision
actually improves the quality of the decision. <==nst]
Well, my opinion isn't very useful, here. I tend to think we talk _mostly_ as
a replacement for grooming each other. Or perhaps I should phrase it as: most
of the talk we engage in is meaningless jabber that replaces grooming. But
perhaps each of us, all of us, does engage in some sort of reprogramming, at
least sporadically and rarely.
The best I can do is tell you why _I_ talk (including these tl;dr e-mails). It
is in the hopes that I will be reprogrammed. Every word I read, every noise I
hear, wherever it comes from, whomever it comes from, _might_ reprogram me.
There are other ways to be programmed (working in the garden, driving, hiking,
etc.). But there is a kind of nuance to talk-talk-based reprogramming that is
difficult to get at any other way.
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