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Opportunity costs and efficiency of investments in mega sport events
2009
Economic analyses of mega sport events usually focus on the positive effects and legacies while ignoring opportunity costs and the efficiency of using scarce resources. Event opponents argue that decisions to invest public resources should also consider alternative uses of the money. This paper aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding the opportunity costs of mega sport events. By using the measure ‘efficiency’ (output/input) of alternative investments it will become clear that the decision to stage a mega sport event cannot be taken in isolation and that there are many factors that need to be considered. The argument put forward is based on a stakeholder’s perspective and a spatial d…
La influencia de Pierre Bayle en la construcción de la segunda antinomia de la razón pura
2020
This paper aims to establish precisely the scope of Pierre Bayle’s influence on the construction of Kant’s second antinomy of pure reason, since there is a remarkable parallelism between this second cosmological conflict and the argument against extension of the article “Zeno of Elea” of Bayle’s Dictionary. It is argued that Bayle, employing the skeptical method in metaphysical research, has a major influence on the construction of the main arguments of the second antinomy and sets a precedent for its logical solution.
Teaching Argumentation Skills in an Electronic Mail Environment
1997
SUMMARY This paper discusses the qualities of computer‐mediated communication (CMC) relevant to the teaching of argumentation skills. It describes an electronic mail (e‐mail) study experiment carried out in an MEd level course in education. The aim of the experiment was to explore the possibility of using CMC to promote the argumentation skills of university students. The experiment (n = 31) was based on a comparison of tutor‐led seminar mode (2 groups) with a student‐led discussion mode (2 groups) using an e‐mail study. The students practised argumentation during a six‐week e‐mail study period. The comparison group (n = 193) engaged in a traditional self‐study. All the students’ argumentat…
10. KLASES SKOLĒNU TEKSTVEIDES PRASMJU ATTĪSTĪŠANA LATVIEŠU VALODAS STUNDĀS: ARGUMENTĒTĀS ESEJAS IZSTRĀDE
2022
Diplomdarbā 10. klases skolēnu tekstveides prasmju attīstīšana latviešu valodas stundās: argumentētās esejas izstrāde izvīrzīts mērķis ir pārbaudīt darba autores izstrādātā lingvodidaktiskā materiāla piemērotību 10. klases skolēnu argumentētās esejas rakstīšanas prasmju attīstīšanai, aprobējot to latviešu valodas mācību stundās. Vērojumi, Valsts izglītības un satura centra eksāmenu rezultātu analīze, skolotāju paustās atziņas liecina, ka skolēnu tekstveides prasme, rakstot dažādus tekstus, tai skaitā arī argumentēto eseju, nav pietiekami attīstīta, tāpēc tam būtu jāpievērš īpaša uzmanība, kas arī nosaka temata aktualitāti. Diplomdarba trijās nodaļās iekļauts ieskats teorētiskajās atziņās, k…
Peithò o l’argomentazione relazionale al servizio della comunità nella Grecia antica
2016
In the Greek world, in the face of the dialectical argument of ‘intellectuals’, which unfolds in the discussion ideally without time limits with individuals (present or virtual) and plays with their agreement all steps deemed necessary to arrive at “truth”, the persuasive argument of political rhetoric, expressed monologically in a limited time and in the face of a collective audience, always has the need to maintain a good relation with this last one. The main features of this type of argument are absence of hierarchy, community dimension, pluralism, negotiation and mediation skills, and reception of the listener. And as the risk of dialectics is the eristic (but also the authoritarian pre…
Argumentos retóricos sobre Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo en Colombia. Análisis jurisprudencial desde la teoría de la argumentación jurídica de…
2011
RESUMENEl presente trabajo aborda los conceptos planteados por Chaïm Perelman en su teoría de la argumentación, con el fin de lograr una comprensión del razonamiento en las decisiones judiciales tomadas por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, en relación a tres casos sobre interrupción voluntaria del embarazo (IVE). En primer lugar, se aborda la teoría de la “Nueva Retórica” de Chaïm Perelman, y en especial su aplicación en el campo del Derecho. A continuación se hace un breve repaso de las premisas de la argumentación y las técnicas argumentativas manteniendo un enfoque de carácter jurídico. Para finalizar, se analiza la motivación de las sentencias de la Corte Constitucional colombiana …
Social Psychology Of Persuasion Applied To Human-agent Interaction
2008
A bstract: This paper discusses and evaluates the application of a social psychologically enriched, user-centered approach to agent architecture design. The major aim is to facilitate human‐agent interaction () by making agents not only algorithmically more i ntelligent but also socially more skillful in communicating with the user. A decision-making model and communicative argumentation strategies have been incorporated into the agent architecture. In the presented content resource management experiments, enhancement of human task performance is demonstrated for users that are supported by a persuasive agent. This superior performance seems to be rooted in a more trusting collaborative rel…
Rhetoric, Discourse and Knowledge
2016
The authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary boundaries, to make scientific knowledge interesting outside academic settings as well, and to manage (c)overt knowledge in different social and political contexts. The volume focuses on the cultural concept of knowledge society, examining diverse linguistic means of knowledge transmission from the perspective of the complex interplay between knowledge and persuasion. The contributors discuss both sociological and philosophical issues, as well as textual processes in different genres that aim to communicate knowledge.
Artificial Suffering: An Argument for a Global Moratorium on Synthetic Phenomenology
2021
This paper has a critical and a constructive part. The first part formulates a political demand, based on ethical considerations: Until 2050, there should be a global moratorium on synthetic phenomenology, strictly banning all research that directly aims at or knowingly risks the emergence of artificial consciousness on post-biotic carrier systems. The second part lays the first conceptual foundations for an open-ended process with the aim of gradually refining the original moratorium, tying it to an ever more fine-grained, rational, evidence-based, and hopefully ethically convincing set of constraints. The systematic research program defined by this process could lead to an incremental re…
A truth that’s told with bad intent
2014
In recent years, a lively debate has emerged about the question of correctly defining lying. Two strands of argumentation have evolved in the philosophy of language: First, the idea that lying is not necessarily connected to an intention of the speaker to deceive the hearer (e.g., Carson 2010); second, the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between lying and mere misleading (e.g., Saul 2012). This paper deals with both assumptions from the vantage point of the semantics-pragmatics interface and relates them to the question of how it is possible to lie while drawing on implicit content of an utterance. It is argued that lying necessarily involves an intention to deceive and that ma…