Criticism without fundamental principles

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Criticism without fundamental principles

Journal Article (2016)

Author(s)

Eugen Octav Popa (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

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Normativity Criticism Argumentation theory Idealizations Pragma-dialectics

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https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v36i2.4641 Final published version

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Publication Year

2016

Language

English

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Issue number

2

Volume number

36

Pages (from-to)

192-216

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Abstract

In this paper I develop and defend a form of argumentative nor-mativity that is not based on fundamental principles. I first argue that research agendas that aim to discover (or claimed to have discovered) fundamental principles of 'good' argumentative discourse share one crucial weak spot, viz. circularity. I then argue that this weak spot can be avoided in a pancritical (Bartley, 1984) view of normativity.