Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs (Cartonné)

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory.�Aside from�its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.