Lecture: Argumentation Keynote from 2006 Koper Conference - Peter Houtlosser

PHOTO: Peter Houtlosser at the event

Here is the abstract from Peter’s talk, which took place at the November 2006 conference in Koper, Slovenia, entitled Thinking and Speaking a Better World: International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment. Thanks to Peter for his permission to tape and upload this video.

Peter Houtlosser
Netherlands

Strategic manoeuvring: Conceptualisation and application

In this lecture I aim to provide an overview of the elements of the theory of strategic manoeuvring that Frans van Eemeren and I have developed in the last decade. The lecture elucidates in what way the notion of strategic manoeuvring captures both dialectical and rhetorical perspectives on the analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse by explaining how strategic manoeuvring enables arguers to reconcile their ambition to argue in a reasonable way and their aspiration to have their own position accepted. After briefly discussing the parameters for designing a typology of the various forms of strategic manoeuvring, I shall show how every particular form of strategic manoeuvring has its own conditions for demarcating sound from fallacious instances of that form of manoeuvring and how these conditions determine the criteria are that can be used to evaluate whether or not the demarcation line between sound and fallacious manoeuvring has been transgressed. Finally, I shall discuss in more detail what arguers can do to respond to fallacious instances of strategic manoeuvring in such a way that they avoid committing a counter-fallacy while they are at the same time effective in neutralizing their opponent’s fallacious move.

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