Download or read book The Rhetoricity of Philosophy written by Blake D. Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “rhetoricity”. This book provides the first philosophical treatment of rhetoricity. It is motivated by two ongoing developments. The first is the debate between Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin about philosophy’s relation to rhetoric. Both Badiou and Cassin are critical of rhetoric, albeit for different reasons. Second, there has been a growing resurgence of interest in rhetoric considering the recent rise in authoritarian politics as well as new forms of propaganda driven by “persuasive technologies”. This book identifies the common target of Badiou’s and Cassin’s otherwise incompatible critiques: rhetoric’s conception of audience. It offers a fresh take on the “new rhetoric” project of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, putting their work into conversation with the Badiou-Cassin debate. The book then turns to the hermeneutic philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in search of an expanded conception of audience. It shows that Ricoeur’s hermeneutic philosophy allows us to extend Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s psychological notion of audience to texts themselves and to argue that human beings have a rhetorical capacity to reflect on audiences in search of what is potentially persuasive. The Rhetoricity of Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in contemporary European philosophy, rhetoric, argumentation studies, and social theory.

Download or read book Interpretation in International Law written by Andrea Bianchi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International lawyers have long recognised the importance of interpretation to their academic discipline and professional practice. As new insights on interpretation abound in other fields, international law and international lawyers have largely remained wedded to a rule-based approach, focusing almost exclusively on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Such an approach neglects interpretation as a distinct and broader field of theoretical inquiry. Interpretation in International Law brings international legal scholars together to engage in sustained reflection on the theme of interpretation. The book is creatively structured around the metaphor of the game, which captures and illuminates the constituent elements of an act of interpretation. The object of the game of interpretation is to persuade the audience that one's interpretation of the law is correct. The rules of play are known and complied with by the players, even though much is left to their skills and strategies. There is also a meta-discourse about the game of interpretation - 'playing the game of game-playing' - which involves consideration of the nature of the game, its underlying stakes, and who gets to decide by what rules one should play. Through a series of diverse contributions, Interpretation in International Law reveals interpretation as an inescapable feature of all areas of international law. It will be of interest and utility to all international lawyers whose work touches upon theoretical or practical aspects of interpretation.

Download or read book Exceptions in International Law written by Lorand Bartels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many international obligations are subject to exceptions. These can be expressed in several ways: an obligation may be vitiated by the presence of one of its constitutive negative requirements, an obligation may be set aside by the application of another more specific rule, or an actor might have a right to act in a certain way notwithstanding a contrary obligation. Exceptions are also of fundamental practical importance: for example, they affect the allocation of the burden of proof. This volume provides a systematic and analytic study of exceptions to legal obligations in international law and defences for breaches of these obligations. It features contributions written by legal philosophers, who introduce various theoretical approaches to the role of exceptions, and scholars of international law, who elaborate on generic issues applicable to exceptions in international law as well as examine specific issues arising from exceptions in their respective areas of expertise. Topics covered include the use of force, international criminal law, human rights, trade, investment, environment, and jurisdictional immunities.

Download or read book Le Champ de L argumentation written by Chaïm Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety written by Gregory Rolina and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the specifics of safety regulations regarding nuclear risk and how experts contribute to the safety of nuclear installations. Drawing on research conducted in collaboration with the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the ideas that are put forward rely on a review of the practices of specialists in human and organizational factors concerning nuclear safety. The author shows that the French approach depends on maintaining a technical dialogue between the regulatory authority (ASN), IRSN and nuclear operators. This method of risk management is known as "French cooking" in the Anglo-Saxon world, where a more formal regulatory approach is taken. This technical dialogue does however hold certain benefits, particularly in the field of human and organizational factors, where it allows an advancement of the state of knowledge, which remains incomplete. After the Fukushima accident, in the face of an ongoing European and global re-evaluation of the safety of nuclear power and alignment towards the Anglo-Saxon standard, the French cooking approach may yet be able to make a significant contribution. This work will be of interest to all involved in nuclear power engineering and in the field of risk management and nuclear safety. Includes a preface by Jacques Repussard, Director General, IRSN, France, and a postface by Erik Hollnagel, Professor, Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark / Chief Consultant, Centre for Quality, Region of Southern Denmark.

Download or read book Pragmatics in Practice written by Jan-Ola Östman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, discursive, variational, or interactional angles, this 9th volume focuses on what pragmatics is good for – beyond the very discipline of pragmatics as such. The chapters in the volume thus address the importance of taking a pragmatic perspective on traditional fields of applied linguistics (contrastive and error analysis, translation), and they address the core of pragmatics as the study of language use (with phenomena ranging from irony and emphasis to literacy and mass media, and with approaches to the function of language like rhetoric, stylistics, corpus analysis, and general semantics). The volume contains chapters not only on the spoken and written modes of communication, but also on signed language pragmatics and on computer-mediated communication. The impact and usefulness of taking a pragmatic perspective on language for a deeper understanding of clinical and rehabilitation practices has recently received ever more focus; in this volume, aspects of this direction of research are dealt with in the chapter on clinical pragmatics. In most of the chapters in the volume, ethics has a core role to play, not only in issues of authenticity in general in relation to research on language use, but also in issues that have a direct influence on the (linguistic) culture and society we live in, irrespective of whether we are part of a (linguistic) majority or a minority, or a minority within a minority: language policy and language planning, language ecology, and language in relation to legal matters. In all of these fields, we see the importance of research within pragmatics as a discipline dealing with how language influences our everyday lives. All in all, the volume presents different perspectives on how research in pragmatics not only can be put to practice, but how pragmatics is used as a tool to gain a better understanding of the world we live in.

Download or read book The Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence written by Dioneia Motta Monte-Serrat and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence presents the biological and logical structure typical of human language in its dynamic mediating process between reality and the human mind. The book explains linguistic functioning in the dynamic process of human cognition when forming meaning. After that, an approach to artificial intelligence (AI) is outlined, which works with a more restricted concept of natural language that leads to flaws and ambiguities. Subsequently, the characteristics of natural language and patterns of how it behaves in different branches of science are revealed to indicate ways to improve the development of AI in specific fields of science. A brief description of the universal structure of language is also presented as an algorithmic model to be followed in the development of AI. Since AI aims to imitate the process of the human mind, the book shows how the cross-fertilization between natural language and AI should be done using the logical-axiomatic structure of natural language adjusted to the logical-mathematical processes of the machine. - Presents a comprehensive approach to natural language and its inherent and complex dynamics - Develops language content as the next frontier, identifying the universal structure of language as a common structure that appears in both AI and cognitive computing - Explains the standard structure present in cognition and AI, making them interchangeable - Offers examples of the application of the universal language model in image analysis and conventional language

Download or read book L Utilisation de la m thode comparative en droit europ en written by François van der Mensbrugghe and published by Presses universitaires de Namur. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis longtemps déjà le législateur européen tente de donner au droit privé un caractère authentiquement européen. De nombreuses directives en témoignent. Le droit comparé connaît également une résonance auprès des autorités judiciaires européennes. Le présent ouvrage évalue la méthode comparative des principaux intervenants dans le processus communautaire (membres du Parlement européen, juges, avocats, conseillers juridiques, etc.). La première partie de ce livre s'attache à l’utilisation de la méthode comparative dans l’élaboration de la norme européenne. La deuxième partie concerne l’utilisation de la méthode comparative dans l’interprétation et l’application de la norme européenne. Au regard de l’Europe élargie, une prise de conscience comparatiste s'impose plus que jamais, afin de permettre une participation généralisée et éclairée des citoyens dans la création de règles européennes.

Download or read book La nouvelle rhetorique written by Chaïm Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Trait de l argumentation written by Chaïm Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce Traité se rattache aux préoccupations de la Renaissance et, par-delà, à celles des auteurs grecs et latins qui ont étudié l'art de convaincre et les techniques de la discussion. Il passe largement les bornes de la rhétorique traditionnelle et envisage surtout les textes imprimés et les moyens discursifs d'obtenir l'assentiment.Les diverses espèces de discours, leur variation en fonction des disciplines et des auditoires, la manière dont les notions se modifient et s'organisent, l'histoire de ces transformations, les systèmes auxquels a pu donner naissance l'adaptation d'ensembles notionnels à des problèmes de connaissance fournissent ici un terrain de recherches d'une richesse incomparable.Les auteurs accordent une particulière importance à l'analyse des argumentations philosophiques, justement parce qu'elles sont censées s'adresser à des lecteurs sur lesquels ont peu de prise la suggestion, la passion ou l'intérêt. Parce qu'il décompose les raisonnements présentés aussi bien par les publicistes dans leurs journaux ou les politiciens dans leurs discours, que par les avocats dans leurs plaidoiries, les juges dans leurs attendus, les métaphysiciens dans leurs exposés, ce Traité de l'argumentation s'adresse non seulement aux logiciens et philosophes, mais aussi à tous ceux qui ont pris pour tâche de convaincre, à quelque titre que ce soit.

Download or read book Rhetoric and Argumentation in the Beginning of the XX Century written by Henrique Jales Ribeiro and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the edition of the Proceedings of the International Colloquium “Rhetoric and Argumentation in the Beginning of the XXIst Century” which was held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, in October 2-4, 2008, and was organized by Henrique Jales Ribeiro, Joaquim Neves Vicente and Rui Alexandre Grácio. The main purpose of the Colloquium was to commemorate the publication in 1958 of the books La nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l’argumentation, and The Uses of Arguments, by, respectively, C. Perelman/L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and S. Toulmin. But another important goal was to take stock of the state of rhetoric and argumentation theory at the beginning of a new century. It was a unique event, without parallel in Portugal and worldwide - considering its theme and its aims -, which gathered some of the World’s most renowned rhetoric and argumentation theorists: Alan Gross, Douglas Walton, Erik Krabbe, Frans V. Eemeren, F. Snoeck Henkemans, Guy Haarscher, John Anthony Blair, Marianne Doury, Oswald Ducrot, Ruth Amossy. The book includes a variety of very important contributions to rhetoric and argumentation theory, ranging from those that naturally fall within the subject matter, to the areas of philosophy, linguistics, communication theory, education theory and law theory. The “art”, as it was called in the Medieval curricula, is no longer a discipline amongst others and has became, according to the view of some specialists and largely owing to Perelman and Toulmin influences, a “new paradigm” of rationality for our age, which auspiciously encompasses all fields of knowledge and culture. The book is divided into five parts: I- Historical and philosophical studies on the influences of Perelman and Toulmin; II- Studies in argumentation theory; III- Linguistic approaches to argumentation theory; IV- Rhetoric; and communication theory / education theory approaches to argumentation; and V- Law theory approaches to argumentation.

Download or read book L empire rh torique written by Chaïm Perelman and published by Vrin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La rhetorique n'est pas la discipline qui s'occupe essentiellement des figures de rhetorique: celles-ci ne sont plus qu'un outil parmi d'autres pour persuader et convaincre un auditoire. Dans toute sa generalite, elle constitue une theorie de l'argumentation, qui se sert de raisonnements qu'Aristote qualifiait de dialectiques. En ce sens la rhetorique, qui englobe la dialectique des Anciens, est le pendant de la logique formelle, car c'est l'instrument indispensable de toute pensee qui ne se reduit pas a un calcul. Toute deliberation, toute discussion, toute controverse, toute presentation d'idees nouvelles qui fait appel a la raison, est obligee d'y recourir. La rhetorique est ainsi l'instrument indispensable de toute pensee et de toute philosophie critique. L'etude des techniques d'argumentation, et de leurs presupposes, longtemps negligee par le rationalisme classique, d'inspiration mathematique, est presentee dans ses perspectives historiques et philosophiques.

Download or read book Logique et rh torique selon Cha m Perelman written by Jean-François Melcer and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des trois volets de l'oeuvre de Chaïm Perelman – la philosophie du droit, l'éthique et la logique – le troisième est le moins connu. Les précédents tomes de L'éloquence de la raison ont mis l'accent sur les deux premiers. Il s'agit, à présent, d'expliciter les conditions épistémologiques de possibilité de la nouvelle rhétorique, conçue comme logique argumentative, non comme technologie persuasive.

Download or read book Qu est ce que l argumentation written by Michel Meyer and published by Vrin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une interrogation sur l'argumentation suivie de textes commentés : Rhéthorique à Herennius, Livre I, 3 et l' Empire rhétorique. Rhétorique et argumentation, chap. VI de C. Perelman.

Download or read book Argumentation et droit written by Guillaume Vannier and published by PUF. This book was released on 2014-09-08T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conférencier invité par la Société française de philosophie, séance du 23 avril 1960 à la Sorbonne, Perelman engage une discussion avec son public dans lequel se trouvent P. Ricoeur, Lacan, P. M. Schuhl, Koyré sur le thème : Pourquoi y-a-t-il désaccords entre philosophes, juristes et autres domaines ... Le désaccord qui oppose certains philosophes entre eux ne les disqualifie-t-il pas ? La philosophie est-elle capable de dépasser le désaccord ? Ces questions n'étaient pourtant pas nouvelles déjà Descartes se les posaient. Mais Perelman se définit comme anticartésien, comme Pierce qu'il admire, et son oeuvre envisage la question du désaccord d'une tout autre manière que Descartes. On peut poser la question ainsi : Pourquoi la doctrine cartésienne du désaccord est-elle inacceptable pour Perelman ? Alors que le désaccord était pour Descartes le signe de l'erreur, Perelman en revendique la légitimité. Le désaccord entre les perspectives théoriques des philosophes semblait presque inadmissible au premier, il se trouvera au contraire expliqué et même justifié dans les domaines juridiques et politiques par Perelman. Ce travail se propose de réaliser un examen général et critique de l'oeuvre de Perelman afin de souligner les imprécisions et indécisions qui demeurent dans cette oeuvre at qui ne peuvent être résolues que par une orientation interprétative déterminée. Le plus grand attrait de l'oeuvre de Perelman réside en effet dans un profond paradoxe, relatif à la revendication de la rhétorique pour la constitution de la raison. C'est par la rhétorique que se comprendraient les thèmes du jugement, de la justice, de la raison et enfin de la liberté. Le jugement rhétorique déterminerait les critères de la justice, leur application aux cas particuliers et la rhétorique serait fondatrice de la rationalité. Enfin et surtout la liberté de pensée se gagnerait par une activité rhétorique. Ce travail ne vise d'ailleurs pas à réduire la force de ces paradoxes mais à les reconduire vers leur enjeu ultime à savoir la question de la liberté de la raison. La liberté ne se fondant selon Perelman ni sur une spontanéité immotivée ni sur un savoir scientifique, elle doit se comprendre comme liberté de la raison rhétorique. Extrait de l'introductionLa rhétorique est souvent considérée comme superficielle ou trompeuse. Prenant le contre pied de ce présupposé, Perelman soutient au contraire que seule une rhétorique argumentée est rationnelle et juste. L'étude du droit positif le confirme : l'argumentation juridique est essentiellement rhétorique et c'est ce qui fait sa valeur. Les parties au procès, les différentes instances juridictionnelles et enfin la dogmatique juridique prétendent à la liberté et à la rationnalité et les établissent, pour une part, lorsqu'elles tentent de se persuader mutuellement du bien-fondé de leur interprétation de la loi. Texte de couverture

Download or read book La th orie de l argumentation written by Centre national de recherches de logique and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: