Dissensus and the search for common ground: OSSA 2007
ISBN
9780968346150
Event
Dissensus & The Search for Common Ground
Publisher
Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
Organisations
Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
I give a pragma-dialectical reconstruction of the role of teleological-evaluative argumentation referring to goals and values in the justification of judicial decisions. I establish the role and place of this form of argumentation in complex forms of justification in which the argumentation interacts with other forms of legal argumentation. I will do this by integrating insights from legal theory and legal philosophy into a pragma-dialectical framework for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation.