Epistemic and deontic authority in the argumentum ad verecundiam

Bibliographic Data

ID21201320
AuthorsMarcin Koszowy (0000-0001-5553-7428, University of Białystok), D Walton (0000-0003-0728-1370, University of Windsor)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue2
Pages287-315
Publication date2019-07-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.16051.kos
OpenAlexW3124524091
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited27

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