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This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate
between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence
of God. It includes an introduction justifying the choice of text
and describing the historical and philosophical background of the
debate. It also provides a transcript of the debate, based in part
on the original recording. The argumentative analyses occupy Parts
I and II of the book. In Part I the argumentative process is
analysed by means of the ideal model of critical discussion, the
workhorse of pragma-dialectics. Part I shows how the two parties go
through the four stages of a critical discussion. It highlights the
questions raised over and beyond the presiding question of whether
God exists and examines almost a hundred questions that are raised.
Many are left in the air, whereas a few others give rise to sundry
sub-discussions or meta-dialogues. In Part II the theoretical
framework of argument dialectic is put to work: argument structures
are identified by means of punctuation marks, argumentative
connectors and operators, allowing to see the argumentative
exchange as the collaborative construction of a macro-argument.
Such a macro-argument is both a joint product of the arguers and a
complex structure representing the dialectical relationships
between the individual arguments combined in it. Finally, the
complementarity of the two approaches is addressed. Thus the book
can be described as an exercise in adversarial collaboration.
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