Erik C.W. Krabbe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Erik C.W. Krabbe plays a role.
2021 Be reasonable!: How to be an optimist in the ‘Age of Unreason’ Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:2, pp. 226–244 | Article
Are we living in an age of unreason? And what to do about it? Can we combat unreason? We discuss situations in which one may presume to be confronted with unreasonable behavior by an interlocutor: fallacies, changing rules of the game, shifting to some other type of dialogue, and abandonment of… read more
2019 Criticism and justification of negotiated compromises: The 2015 Paris Agreement in Dutch parliament Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 91–111 | Article
The paper focuses on conflicts about an already negotiated compromise, taking as its example a debate in Dutch parliament about the approval of the Paris Agreement on climate change of 2015. It deals with a variety of worries that opponents of approval may advance and the arguments in its… read more
2016 Fair and unfair strategies in public controversies Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:3, pp. 315–347 | Article
Contemporary theory of argumentation offers many insights about the ways in which, in the context of a public controversy, arguers should ideally present their arguments and criticize those of their opponents. We also know that in practice not all works out according to the ideal patterns:… read more
2011 Formal dialectical systems and their uses in the study of argumentation Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 245–264 | Article
1982 Formal Dialectics as Immanent Criticism of Philosophical Systems Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation, Barth, E.M. and J.L. Martens (eds.), pp. 233 ff. | Chapter
1982 Theory of Argumentation and the Dialectical Garb of Formal Logic Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation, Barth, E.M. and J.L. Martens (eds.), pp. 123–132 | Chapter