A Precious Gift to Politics: an Investigation into Analytical Discourse Evaluation

Authors

  • Max van Steen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26481/marble.2013.v5.180

Abstract

 

Should liberal democratic societies accept Teun Dekker’s Analytical Discourse Evaluation as a gift from analytical philosophy? In this essay, the premises on which Analytical Discourse Evaluation is based are the topic under investigation. By performing Analytical Discourse Evaluation on Analytical Discourse Evaluation, some of the hidden structures behind Teun Dekker’s argument in favor of the use of Analytical Discourse Evaluation are lifted out of the fog. In this contribution, both the Data side and one of the possible Warrant sides of Teun Dekker’s argument are reconstructed according to Toulmin’s model. Subsequently, each side of the argument is evaluated rigorously. In this manner, it is shown which premises lie at the core of Teun Dekker’s argument. Ultimately, three basic Claims will sketch the position one has to agree to before one can accept this precious gift to politics.

 

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Published

2013-07-01