The course will take the form of a project, in which students will work together to create an interactive, online map for the World Wide Web of arguments in a policy debate about the European Green paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. Methods from argumentation theory in philosophy and computational models of argument will be used to reconstruct and visualize the arguments put forward by stakeholders in their position statements.
The argument map will be a team effort and each student in the project will receive the same grade based on the quality of the content of the argument map produced.
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Walton, D. Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006. |
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