4ème de couv. : "La crise bancaire et financière de 2007-2008 avait offert une occasion de changer en profondeur le fonctionnement du secteur bancaire et financier. Pourtant, en dépit de la nécessité des réformes, elles ont provoqué une levée de boucliers de la part des banques …
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns' reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patt…
This volume contains a selection of 18 articles which report on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account. Some articles provide relevant theoretical backgrounds, oth…
"Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the ev…
