No. 038 (2020): Núm. 38 (2020) julio-diciembre 2020. Lógoi. Revista de Filosofía
Arguing about Argumentation Theory... One of the activities we do most naturally is arguing. We do it daily, on different occasions, and with this we also carry out the task that goes hand in hand with argumentation, and that is none other than the evaluation of arguments, whether they are our own or others'. We argue to allege the reason for our beliefs; We argue to persuade someone, to accuse or defend, to support a proposal, or to challenge it. When arguing we can have different intentions, but there is a common aspect to these different purposes, and that is that when arguing we seek to persuade or convince someone of something. The social communicator, the lawyer, the sociologist, the political scientist, the educator, just to name a few professionals, carry out their functions through continuous argumentation. It informs, defends or accuses, analyzes, teaches, persuades, in short, argues; the success of his work lies in the good use he makes of his "argumentation"; however, I am afraid that an overwhelming majority of these professionals have never approached what is known today as Argumentation Theory. In all areas of work and personal life, we put our discursive capacities into play by aiming at different objectives: to enforce a proposal for action, to justify a decision already made, to solve a dispute, to negotiate a favorable agreement, etc. In any of these situations we need to resort to argumentative tools that serve both to manage and communicate the information we have, and to evaluate the alternative arguments of those who are part of the process. Even so, we can perceive that, in general, in our academic circles there is a certain indifference with respect to studies on argumentation and this is inexcusable, taking into account that in order to exercise their own reflection they need arguments. A short time ago, a group of Ibero-American scholars of Argumentation Theory began the process of creating the Ibero-American Society of Argumentation within the framework of the First Ibero-American Congress of Argumentation, held in August 2019, at the EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia. There, the next steps to be taken in order to make this creation a reality were discussed; a few weeks after that Congress, a gigantic effort carried out by José Alhambra Delgado and Hubert Marraud (UAM) stands out, who have given us an extraordinary bibliography of argumentation theory in Spanish, which can be consulted in http://sibarg.org/bibliografia-de-teoria-de-la-argumentacion-en-espano. We also circulated a list of various journals where researchers' articles could be published, which obviously meet the requirements of each of these publications.
Published:
2020-08-18
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