Narration as Argument

237 Pages·2017·2.7 MB·English

by  Paula Olmos (eds.)

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Narration as
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Paula Olmos
Editor
Narration as Argument
Editor
Paula Olmos
Department of Linguistics, Modern
Languages, Logic and Philosophy
of Science, Theory of Literature
and Comparative Literature
Autonomous University of Madrid
Madrid, Spain
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Contents
1 Introduction: Narratives, Narrating, Narrators .................................. 1
Paula Olmos
Part I Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument
2 Narratives and the Concept of Argument ............................................. 11
Christopher Tindale
3 Arguing with Stories ............................................................................... 31
Floris Bex and Trevor Bench-Capon
4 Narrative Fiction as a Source of Knowledge ........................................ 47
Mitchell Green
5 Analogy, Supposition, and Transcendentality
in Narrative Argument ........................................................................... 63
Gilbert Plumer
6 Parables: Crossroads Between the Cognitive Theory
of Metaphor and Argumentation Theory ............................................. 83
Eduardo de Bustos
Part II Argumentative Narratives in Context
7 Narratives and Pragmatic Arguments: Ivens’ The 400 Million .......... 103
Paul van den Hoven
8 The Sample Convention, or, When Fictionalized Narratives
Can Double as Historical Testimony ..................................................... 123
Leona Toker
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9 From Narrative Arguments to Arguments That Narrate .................... 141
Adrien Frenay and Marion Carel
10 Narrative as Argument in Atul Gawande’s “On Washing Hands”
and “Letting Go”..................................................................................... 177
James Phelan
11 On Thought Experiments and Other Narratives
in Scientific Argument ............................................................................ 193
Paula Olmos
12 How to Win Wars: The Role of the War Narrative .............................. 215
Tone Kvernbekk and Ola Bøe-Hansen
Contributors
Trevor Bench-Capon University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Ola Bøe-Hansen Department of Veterans Affairs, Norwegian Armed Forces, Oslo,
Norway
Marion Carel Centre des Sciences des Littératures en Langue Française (CSLF),
Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France
Eduardo de Bustos Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid,
Spain
Adrien Frenay Centre des Sciences des Littératures en Langue Française (CSLF),
Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France
Mitchell Green University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Tone Kvernbekk Department of Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Paula  Olmos Department of Linguistics, Modern Languages, Logic and
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
James Phelan Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Gilbert Plumer Law School Admission Council (retired), Newtown, PA, USA
Christopher Tindale University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
Leona Toker The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Paul van den Hoven Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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About the Authors
Trevor Bench-Capon
University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Trevor Bench-Capon has a DPhil from St John’s College Oxford. After working in
Computer Science at the University of Liverpool for 25 years, he retired in September
2012 and is now an honorary visiting professor in the department. He remains inter-
ested in all aspects of advanced informatics systems, particularly their application
to law. Current focus is on dialogue and argument.
Floris Bex
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Floris Bex has a PhD in law and artificial intelligence from the University of
Groningen. He currently works as a lecturer in intelligent systems at the University
of Utrecht’s Department of Information and Computing Sciences. His main areas of
investigation are the computational, philosophical, and linguistic aspects of argu-
mentation, linking mathematical models with more natural representations of argu-
ment and discourse.
Ola Bøe-Hansen
Defense Staff (Norway)
Commander (RNoN) Ola Bøe-Hansen is currently deputy chief of veterans affairs,
Department of Veterans Affairs in the Norwegian Armed Forces. He worked for
many years at the Norwegian Defense University College. He has written exten-
sively on military theory, specializing in narrative research and research on strategic
communication. Cdr Bøe-Hansen has served in operations in Afghanistan and on
the Horn of Africa.
Marion Carel
EHESS-CNRS (France)
Marion Carel is a full professor of semantics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her main areas of interest are the study of argumenta-
tion and the utterance act. She has published in 2011 L’Entrelacement argumentatif.
Lexique, discours et blocs sémantique (Editions Honoré Champion).
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Eduardo de Bustos
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
Eduardo de Bustos is professor of logic and philosophy of science and teaches phi-
losophy of language in the Spanish distance-learning university UNED. He has also
lectured at the University of Barcelona and several universities in Latin-A merican
countries. He has been visiting professor at the University of Cambridge and the
Institute of Cognitive Science of the University of California at Berkeley. He is
author of Introducción a la filosofía del lenguaje (1982), with J.J Acero and
D. Quesada; Pragmática del español: negación, cuantificación y modo (1986);
Filosofía del lenguaje (1999); La metáfora: ensayos transdisciplinares (2000);
Lenguaje, comunicación y cognición (2004); and Metáfora y argumentación (2014).
Adrien Frenay
EHESS-CNRS (France)
Adrien Frenay is a professeur certifié de lettres modernes at the Université Paris
Nanterre. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature with
a focus on space, place, and mobility. He is the coeditor of Epreuves, an indepen-
dant scholarly journal about literature, translation, and social science.
Mitchell Green
University of Connecticut (USA)
Mitchell Green is a philosopher whose interests include the philosophy of language,
the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of mind. Much of his research has also
fallen within the broad category of pragmatics, as well as the evolutionary biology
of communication. Green’s publications include the book Self-Expression (Oxford)
and the coedited volume Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and
the First Person (Oxford). Green’s articles have appeared in such journals as
Linguistics and Philosophy, Pragmatics & Cognition, Mind & Language, Nous,
Mind, Philosophical Studies, Acta Analytica, and Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society. He is currently completing a textbook in the philosophy of language and
another book entitled Know Thyself: On the Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge.
Tone Kvernbekk
University of Oslo (Norway)
Tone Kvernbekk is professor in the Department of Education at the University of
Oslo. She was adjunct professor at the Norwegian Defense University College for
three consecutive periods. Her work centers on three main domains: philosophy of
science, argumentation theory, and narrative theory – all three as applied to various
problems and topics in educational theorizing and research.
Paula Olmos
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Paula Olmos is lecturer in the area of logic and philosophy of science at Madrid’s
Autonomous University. Her research interest covers general argumentation theory
and rhetoric and, more recently, argumentation in science. She has published papers