Mercier and Sperber’s Argumentative Theory of Reasoning: From Psychology of Reasoning to Argumentation Studies

Mercier and Sperber (2011a, 2011b; Mercier, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, and 2011d) have presented a stimulating and provocative new theory of reasoning: the argumentative theory of reasoning. They maintain that argumentation is a meta-representational module. In their evolutionary view of argumentation, th...

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Main Author: Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2012-03-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3536