Populism and the Virtues of Argument

Aberdein, Andrew

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“…This debate has also been addressed from a virtue perspective (Cohen 2015;Cohen 2019, 2021). Other applications include online argumentation, and specifically trolling (Cohen 2017); visual arguments (Aberdein 2018); and religious and political disagreement (Vainio 2017;Aberdein 2022).…”

Section: Defining and Contextualizing Virtuesmentioning

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Virtue Theories of Argument

Aberdein,

Cohen

2024

Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

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Virtue-based approaches have attracted significant recent interest in argumentation, including a recent anthology of Chinese translations of important articles in the field. In this article, adapted from the introduction to that anthology, we discuss the origins of virtue argumentation and some of the challenges it has faced, as well as attempt to provide an overview of recent work on the virtues and vices relevant to argumentation. In the final section we discuss the articles that were selected and motivate their selection.

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Section: Defining and Contextualizing Virtuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtue Theories of Argument

Aberdein,

Cohen

2024

Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

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Post-truth Politics and Epistemic Populism: About (Dis-)Trusted Presentation and Communication of Facts, Not False Information

Harsin

2024

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

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This chapter is a theoretical and conceptual contribution to the research on post-truth politics and populism studies, with an emphasis on epistemic questions (especially those focused on ‘disinformation’/‘misinformation’). It proceeds in two parts. The first part critically analyzes the much-cited Oxford Dictionaries’ definition of post-truth, which authorizes a study of ‘post-truth politics.’ The definition is dismissed as unusable, and a different definition and theory of post-truth is proposed, which sees it as only secondarily epistemic. Arendt’s concept of public truth is proposed as a better starting point, with the caveat that current treatments of post-truth misunderstand how public truth can be known (since it is not ‘scientific’ truth), which requires acknowledging its crucial technologically and socially mediated status depending on performative trust. Thus, post-truth is an affective state, an anxious and future-looking public mood about the difficulty of trust-making for securing publicly accepted facts. The ‘post’ refers to an anxiety about what might be on the horizon. Part II, exploring a potential theoretical overlap between post-truth and populism studies, reverses the epistemic focus of populism studies from populists’ ‘counter-knowledge’ problems taken as self-evident by researchers. Instead, it explores epistemic problems in populism studies on the researcher side: the epistemic risks built into the ‘ideational’ definition of populism; and in the tacit understandings of political rhetoric reduced to ‘information’ (transmission and reception) at the expense of more complex notions of mediated communication as performance or ritual, speech acts, and, especially, political rhetoric. The latter is unrigorously reduced to ‘false information,’ and it requires a very different interpretive analytical approach for comprehending the empirical phenomena being called ‘populist’ and ‘post-truth’—disinformation, misinformation, lying, rumor, and conspiracy theory.

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Populism and the Virtues of Argument

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Virtue Theories of Argument

Virtue Theories of Argument

Post-truth Politics and Epistemic Populism: About (Dis-)Trusted Presentation and Communication of Facts, Not False Information

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