2018
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.51.3.0269
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Designing Soundscapes for Argumentation

Abstract: This article asks if soundscapes are reasonable by inquiring if they can be designed to enhance the capacity for reasoned judgment. Using a normative pragmatic approach to argumentation theory, I demonstrate that soundscapes can be strategically designed to amplify or attenuate obligations, increase or weaken conviction, and create or mask argumentative context. I use the paradigm case of the 2012 casserole protests in Quebec to identify how arguers can use soundscapes to compel a response, increase the desire… Show more

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“…How can we combine these different projects? There is a wealth of research in the vein of the normative-pragmatic school of argumentation that looks at how ordinary people naturally generate their own rules of normativity from ordinary situations (e.g., Eckstein, 2018; Goodwin, 2007). Perhaps, more research should take seriously how ethics might be derived from these situations and the everyday ways in which people might discover something meaningful in these interactions.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…How can we combine these different projects? There is a wealth of research in the vein of the normative-pragmatic school of argumentation that looks at how ordinary people naturally generate their own rules of normativity from ordinary situations (e.g., Eckstein, 2018; Goodwin, 2007). Perhaps, more research should take seriously how ethics might be derived from these situations and the everyday ways in which people might discover something meaningful in these interactions.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…ByrdBot's communication through nonverbal sound can be conceptualized as influential, not as an outright argument per se, but rather as tapping into the ambience of the ecological soundscape to facilitate attunement to the Anthropocene (Rickert, 2013). As such, while ByrdBot is wildly openended in its messaging via soundscapes in that it lacks directly stated premises or conclusions, it also can be said to offer sonic conditions supportive of reasoned reflection on one's own and others' impacts on the ecology (Eckstein, 2018). This experience, if we were to wager a term for it, we might call open-ended witnessing.…”
Section: Open-ended Witnessingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sounds can be used to design spaces that are more or less desirable for argumentation. 16 The original purpose of public fountains in parks, for instance, was to give visitors auditory privacy. Therapists have used white noise machines for the same reason.…”
Section: The Educational Philosophy Behind the Auditory Shieldmentioning
confidence: 99%