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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Exploring Dialogue: Krabbe and Laar (eds.) (2026)


Title: Exploring Dialogue
Subtitle: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with
contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Series Title: Argumentation in Context   23
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/aic.23

Editor(s): Erik C.W. Krabbe, Jan Albert van Laar

eBook ISBN:  9789027243898 Pages:  417 Price: Europe EURO 140.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027243898 Pages:  417 Price: U.K. £ 118.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027243898 Pages:  417 Price: U.S. $ 182.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233998 Pages:  417 Price: Europe EURO 140.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233998 Pages:  417 Price: Europe EURO 148.40
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233998 Pages:  417 Price: U.K. £ 118.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233998 Pages:  417 Price: U.S. $ 182.00

Abstract:

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation,
authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's
or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe
selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical
essays about argumentation. Four of them were written with Jan Albert
van Laar. All of these essays are, in one way or another, concerned
with argumentative dialogue. Their focus is sometimes on particular
kinds of fallacious reasoning, such as non-argumentation, non
sequitur, quasi logical argument, or the fallacies described by
Aristotle, sometimes on theoretical problems encountered when one
tries to construct a model for reasonable dialogue, such as the
problem of retraction, the retreat to dialogues about dialogues, the
tension between cooperation and competition in dialogue, or the
responsibilities of the party that is taking a critical stance. Though
these essays were written from a logical point of view, only a few of
them contain logical technicalities. They were also, to a great
extent, influenced by the work of the pragma-dialecticians (the
Amsterdam School), and one will find many references to their rules
for Critical Discussion. Standing in between the formal and the
informal there is the semiformal method of profiles of dialogue, which
method is often used to illustrate possible courses of dialogues. Some
essays use a more rigorous formalization in order to make their point:
for instance, to compare ancient and contemporary dialectic or to
explore the possibility of formalizing the pragma-dialectic model of
Critical Discussion. Finally, there are some essays about
argumentation in special contexts: mathematical proof and public
controversy.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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