Epistemic and deontic authority in the argumentum ad verecundiam

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21201320
AutoresMarcin Koszowy (0000-0001-5553-7428, University of Białystok), D Walton (0000-0003-0728-1370, University of Windsor)
Año2019
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas287-315
Fecha de publicación2019-07-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.16051.kos
OpenAlexW3124524091
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas27

The aim of this paper is to elaborate tools that would allow us to analyse arguments from authority and guard against fallacious uses of them. To accomplish this aim, we extend the list of existing argumentation schemes representing arguments from authority. For this purpose, we formulate a new argumentation scheme for argument from deontic authority along with a matching set of critical questions used to evaluate it. We argue that clarifying the ambiguity between arguments from epistemic and deontic authority helps building a better explanation of the informal fallacy of appeal to authority ( argumentum ad verecundiam )

Ambiguity · Appeal · Argumentation theory · Deontic logic · Epistemology · Fallacy · Linguistics · Negation · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Psychology