Frank Zenker

Biographic Data

ID5966449
NAMEFrank Zenker
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMEZenker
SIGNATUREZENKER F
AFFILIATIONSLund University
ORCID0000-0001-7173-7964
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Norms and Practices of Public Argumentation

    Open AccessJan Albert van Laar, Frank ZenkerARTICLEArgumentation2024

  • Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and Participation

    Open AccessFrank Zenker, Jan Albert van Laar et al.ARTICLEArgumentation2024

    Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an argumentation-theoretic perspective, we survey the norms that should govern public argumentation and address some of the complexities that scholarly treatments have identified. Our focus is on norms associated with the ideals of correctness and participation as sources of a politi…

  • Cohen’s convention, the seriousness of errors, and the body of knowledge in behavioral science

    Open AccessAran Arslan, Frank ZenkerARTICLESynthese2024References: 91

  • Authority Argument Schemes, Types, and Critical Questions

    Open AccessFrank Zenker, Shiyang YuARTICLEArgumentation2023

  • Slippery Slope Arguments in Legal Contexts

    Open AccessBin Wang, Wang Bin et al.ARTICLEArgumentation2021

  • Newcomb’s problem isn’t a choice dilemma

    Open AccessZhanglyu Li, Frank ZenkerARTICLESynthese2021References: 33

    Newcomb’s problem involves a decision-maker faced with a choice and a predictor forecasting this choice. The agents’ interaction seems to generate a choice dilemma once the decision-maker seeks to apply two basic principles of rational choice theory (RCT): maximize expected utility (MEU); adopt the dominant strategy (ADS). We review unsuccessful attempts at pacifying the dilemma by excluding Newcomb’s problem as an RCT-application, by restricting…

  • Schemes, Critical Questions, and Complete Argument Evaluation

    Open AccessShiyang Yu, Frank ZenkerARTICLEArgumentation2020

    According to the argument scheme approach, to evaluate a given scheme-saturating instance completely does entail asking all critical questions (CQs) relevant to it. Although this is a central task for argumentation theorists, the field currently lacks a method for providing a complete argument evaluation. Approaching this task at the meta-level, we combine a logical with a substantive approach to the argument schemes by starting from Toulmin’s sc…

  • A probabilistic analysis of argument cogency

    Open AccessDavid Godden, Frank ZenkerARTICLESynthese2018Cited by: 1References: 31

  • Falsification

    Open AccessFrank ZenkerCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    In the context of evaluating the empirical adequacy of scientific theories and hypotheses, the term “falsification” denotes having obtained a negative result when testing a comparatively more theoretical prediction against more observational data. The falsifiability and the empirical adequacy of hypotheses and theories remain central goals in all empirical sciences. As falsification always pertains to confronting directly an applied theoretical h…

  • Reasons Pro et Contra as a Debiasing Technique in Legal Contexts

    Open AccessFrank Zenker, Christian Dahlman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2017

    Although legal contexts are subject to biased reasoning and decision making, to identify and test debiasing techniques has largely remained an open task. We report on experimentally deploying the technique "giving reasons pro et contra" with professional ( N = 239) and lay judges ( N = 372) at Swedish municipal courts. Using a mock legal scenario, participants assessed the relevance of an eyewitness's previous conviction for his credibility. On a…

  • The Laws of Belief—Ranking Theory and its Philosophical Applications

    Frank ZenkerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2015

    published

  • From Euler to Navier–Stokes

    Graciana Petersen, Frank ZenkerARTICLEInternational Studies in the…2014References: 1

    This article provides a spatial analysis of the conceptual framework of fluid dynamics during the nineteenth century, focusing on the transition from the Euler equation to the Navier–Stokes equation. A dynamic version of Peter Gärdenfors's theory of conceptual spaces is applied which distinguishes changes of five types: addition and deletion of special laws; change of metric; change in importance; change in separability; addition and deletion of …

  • Theory change as dimensional change

    Open AccessPeter Gärdenfors, Frank ZenkerARTICLESynthese2013Cited by: 5References: 35