Sequencing Critical Moves for Ethical Argumentation Practice: Mun??ara and the Interdependence of Procedure and Agent

ORUÇ R., Uzelgun M. A., Sadek K.

INFORMAL LOGIC, vol.43, no.1, pp.113-137, 2023 (AHCI, Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 43 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Journal Name: INFORMAL LOGIC
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Philosopher's Index, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Page Numbers: pp.113-137
  • Keywords: sequencing, critical moves, values of argumentation, munazara, argumenta-tive virtues and vices, VIRTUES
  • Marmara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to high-light an interdependence between proce-dural and agential norms that undermines their neat separation when appraising ar-gumentation. Drawing on the munazara tradition, we carve a space for sequencing in argumentation scholarship. Focusing on the antagonist's sequencing of critical moves, we identify each sequence's corre-sponding values of argumentation: coales-cence, reliability, and efficacy. These val-ues arise through the mediation of virtues and simultaneously underpin procedural as well as agential norms. Consequently, an ambiguity between procedure and agent becomes apparent. This ambiguity hints at the potential for a virtue theory of argu-mentation that draws on procedural norms.